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Keelhauling (Dutch kielhalen; [1] "to drag along the keel") is a form of punishment and potential execution once meted out to sailors at sea. The sailor was tied to a line looped beneath the vessel, thrown overboard on one side of the ship, and dragged under the ship's keel , either from one side of the ship to the other, or the length of the ...
Keelhauling, a form of corporal punishment used against sailors; Operation Keelhaul, the repatriation of Russian prisoners of war after World War II; Keelhaul (band), American band from Ohio; Keel-Haul (G.I. Joe), a character in the fictional G.I. Joe universe
One of the boats on a recent episode of deadliest catch used the term keelhauling for attaching a weight and dragging it on the bottom of the boat to recover a line attached to a propeller. Someone more knowledgeable in nautical practice may want to add a better description of this here. Jon Thompson 00:44, 24 June 2007 (UTC)
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The bahag is a loincloth that was commonly used throughout the Philippines before European colonization, and which is used by some indigenous tribes of the Philippines today—most notably the Cordillerans in Northern Luzon. [5] [6] The Salakot is traditional headgear, usually made of bamboo, rattan, nito ferns, and bottle gourd. [7] [8]
A kalesa (Philippine Spanish: calesa), is a two-wheeled horse-drawn carriage used in the Philippines. [1] [2] It is commonly vividly painted and decorated. [3] It was the primary mode of public and private transport in the Philippines during the Spanish and the American colonial period. Their use declined with the increasing use of motorized ...
MANILA (Reuters) - The Philippines and the United States will this year carry out their biggest joint military drills since 2015, Manila's army chief said on Wednesday, against a backdrop of ...
A small bangka used for transporting passengers of larger boats in Boracay Balatik, a reconstruction of a large sewn-plank paraw in Palawan Bangka are various native watercraft of the Philippines . It originally referred to small double-outrigger dugout canoes used in rivers and shallow coastal waters, but since the 18th century, it has ...