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10 4-pdrs, 12 swivel guns. HMS Endeavour[ b] was a British Royal Navy research vessel that Lieutenant James Cook commanded to Tahiti, New Zealand and Australia on his first voyage of discovery from 1768 to 1771. She was launched in 1764 as the collier Earl of Pembroke, with the Navy purchasing her in 1768 for a scientific mission to the Pacific ...
The Shipping News. The Shipping News is a novel by American author E. Annie Proulx and published by Charles Scribner's Sons in 1993. It won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, [ 1] the U.S. National Book Award, as well as other awards. [ 2] It was adapted as a film of the same name which was released in 2001.
415. Two Years Before the Mast is a memoir by the American author Richard Henry Dana Jr., published in 1840, having been written after a two-year sea voyage from Boston to California on a merchant ship starting in 1834. A film adaptation under the same name was released in 1946.
1. ( galley (kitchen)) The compartment of a ship where food is cooked or prepared; a ship's kitchen. 2. ( galley) A type of ship propelled by oars, used especially in the Mediterranean for warfare, piracy, and trade from the 8th century BC to the 16th century AD, with some in use until the early 19th century. 3.
The Icon of the Seas will offer four different seven-night routes, with starting prices ranging from an average of $998 to $1,409 per person. A seven-night Western Caribbean & Perfect Day cruise ...
Crossword. A crossword (or crossword puzzle) is a word game consisting of a grid of black and white squares, into which solvers enter words or phrases ("entries") crossing each other horizontally ("across") and vertically ("down") according to a set of clues. Each white square is typically filled with one letter, while the black squares are ...
It's worth noting that the average cost of one shipping container at a size of 8' by 40' starts at about $3,000 for a gently used container and closer to $6,000 for a brand new one. That gives you ...
The ship's log recorded that land was sighted at 6 a.m. on Thursday 19 April 1770. Cook's log used the nautical date, which, during the 18th century, assigned the same date to all ship's events from noon to noon, first p.m. and then a.m. That nautical date began twelve hours before the midnight beginning of the like-named civil date.