Mr Raha, when he was called on to build it, designed a long double-ended whaler, with a wide beam, and a keel hewn from a single log. |
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The two men became fast friends, both signing on as harpooners aboard the Pequod, a Quaker-owned whaler out of Nantucket. |
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She soon attracts the eye and organ of Jack Guard, ex-convict, sealer, whaler and hard bargainer, dour, decent, driven man. |
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During his life he had been a runaway at fifteen, officer, whaler, overlander, hotelier and pastoralist. |
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Bridges or footbridges on the whaler are washed by the storm, so you have to be very careful not to fall into the sea. |
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And they pulled me inboard, and they put me right up in the bow, of the whaler, and they covered me with a tarpaulin or something. |
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After drinking some beer, a whaler I once saw got up and started to fight with himself. |
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South African white shark dive operators reportedly catch juvenile bronze whaler and smooth hammerhead sharks to use as bait. |
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There are four species which concern us, and they are the hammerhead shark, the white shark, the bull whaler shark and the tiger shark. |
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Apart from driving, the group is also involved in research activities of aquamarines, especially the Copper Shark or the bronze whaler. |
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The bronze whaler shark is the guy who slowly swims up through the centre of this meatball, jaws open wide and chomping. |
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On 10 November 1841, Kahe and John Nicoll, a whaler, were formerly married on board a ship off the coast of Kapiti. |
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Cold-stiff hands and aching shoulders hauled on the guys tied to the fore and aft cleats of the whaler until it was drawn back on board the ship. |
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The clinker-built whaler lay trapped between the twin worlds of darkling sea and shadow-limned night. |
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There are four species which concern us, and they are the hammerhead shark, the white shark, the bull whaler and the tiger shark. |
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Melville spent 18 months on a whaler, but the hard life on board drove him to escape from ship at the Marquesas Islands. |
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Brad Satchell, 44, said he was surfing off Scarborough Beach near the western city of Perth on Friday when the shark, probably a bronze whaler, swam up to him. |
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On the morning of 11 February 1944, off the Norwegian coast, Stubborn sighted a convoy of seven ships escorted by four trawlers, a whaler and an aircraft. |
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The whaler spent his time moving up and down the Murrumbidgee River. |
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And if they dumped the carronades here, it means the Southern Princess is here too, a complete wreck of a 200-ton early nineteenth-century whaler. |
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Naqi: My grandmother used to sing a song about a bowlegged whaler, but the whaler didn't understand her words. |
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The same year, the Sancti Spiritu was transformed from a whaler into a privateer, lying in wait to ambush ships flying the French flag. |
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In 1820, a sperm whale sunk an American whaler 2,000 km from land. |
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On July 15, seven people aboard the replica of a XVI Century whaler finished their journey at Red Bay, Labrador. |
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Designed on the pattern of a whaler, it was 63 metres long, displaced 935 tonnes and had a maximum speed of 16 knots. |
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The late Inuk whaler Markosie Pitseolak said that Americans gave his father one of their houses at Nuvujen. |
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In April 1868, a whaler passed by Nuvujen on a dog sled trip and observed that the Scottish station was now in ruins. |
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The island was populated in 1620 and was often frequented by the whaler ships crossing continuously the Atlantic in search of whales. |
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On 20 October 1816 Trevithick left Penzance on the whaler ship Asp accompanied by a lawyer named Page and a boilermaker bound for Peru. |
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Oeno Island was discovered on 26 January 1824 by American Captain George Worth aboard the whaler Oeno. |
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Some of the more notable of these are the Hampton boat of New England, first a lapstrake sail and rowing boat like the Labrador whaler but later a square-sterned, two-masted, half-decked boat equipped with a centreboard. |
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After five months, while out scavenging, Manjiro saw a ship sailing towards the island. The castaways' saviour, William Whitfield, captain of the John Howland, a Fairhaven whaler, took a shine to the sparky lad. |
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The summer of acid rain ReprintsFar from fleeing a tyrant, MacDonald had in fact had to plead with a concerned captain of the Plymouth, a whaler out of Sag Harbour, New York, to be put down in the waters near Japan. |
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The American government had heard that the Lagoda, an American whaler, had been wrecked on the Japanese coast and a number of crew taken prisoner. |
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Designed on the pattern of a whaler, it could be produced quickly and cheaply and had the ability to outmanoeuvre a submarine as well as long endurance. |
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A whaler will get James Caird and the 6 men are joined together. |
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The fillets and fins were identified as school shark, rig, hammerhead shark, and bronze whaler. |
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In 1820, the crew of the whaler Essex spent time on uninhabited Henderson Island. |
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In July 1908, a whaler reportedly saw two killer whales attack and kill a fin whale off western Greenland. |
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In 1775, the whaler Herald found the Octavius adrift near Greenland with the bodies of her crew frozen below decks. |
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Twice I actually hired myself as an under-mate in a Greenland whaler, and acquitted myself to admiration. |
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Earlier yesterday, a 31-yearold man was attacked by a bronze whaler shark while spear-fishing near Australia's Great Barrier Reef. |
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Central heating engineer Dave Morrell reeled in a 26olb bronze whaler last week after casting his line up to 80 yards from a sandy African beach. |
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When he spotted a 4ft bronze whaler shark he jumped in and, after a wrestle, pulled it on to the jetty. |
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Shepherd Conservation Society, was accused of injuring a whaler by hurling a rancid butter stink bomb as well as a number of other offences. |
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It was the trip of a lifetime,' said 47-year-old John Griffiths, from Tonyrefail, who landed the 320lb bronze whaler shark that was the heaviest fish. |
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One particularly exciting sequence shows how members of Greenpeace, a Canadian conservation group, defend whales fleeing from a huge Soviet whaler. |
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The main quarry was the mighty bronze whaler shark, and the lads managed at least a couple apiece, including a 242lb monster for club chairman Mick Graham. |
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Long-beaked common dolphins, Bronze whaler sharks, Bryde's whales, and Cape gannets alter their ecology or behaviour just to dine on the sardines. |
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The name is a partial translation of Norwegian minkehval, possibly after a Norwegian whaler named Meincke, who mistook a northern minke whale for a blue whale. |
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He recorded inaccurate coordinates and the island was not sighted again until 1808, when the British whaler captain James Lindsay named it Lindsay Island. |
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You can also take a dip with lemon, whaler and other nonpredatory sharks. |
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I had ordered four friends into the tender, an 18-foot Boston Whaler, while Dan and I stayed aboard. |
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Mark and his team went hunting for sharks in the waters off South Africa and had a few close encounters including being caught up in a feed frenzy of Bronze Whaler sharks. |
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