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Carla, Emily, and a few friends have a sleepover at Ceilidh's Cove. Dorothy has trouble keeping up with the bigger boats, and when she falls asleep, they tie her safely to her dock and go to Shipwreck Rock to tell scary stories. They insist they aren't frightened by Emily's ghost story about a sunken ship that pulls passing vessels under the water.
Captain. Willem van der Decken. The Flying Dutchman (Dutch: De Vliegende Hollander) is a legendary ghost ship, allegedly never able to make port, but doomed to sail the sea forever. The myths and ghost stories are likely to have originated from the 17th-century Golden Age of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) [ 1 ][ 2 ][ 3 ] and of Dutch ...
Louise is a cargo ship that Theodore and George brought in, the first time they heard that Petra the new pilot boat was coming to live in the harbour. S.S. Malarkey is a cargo ship who tells stories that, true to his namesake, are nothing but malarkey. Margaret is a large green cargo ship that visits the Big Harbour occasionally.
Theodore Tugboat. Theodore Too, a fullsize replica of Theodore Tugboat, titular star of the children's show, docked at Murphys Cable Wharf provides tours of Halifax Harbour in the summer. Theodore Tugboat is a Canadian children's television series about a tugboat named Theodore who lives in the Big Harbour with all of his friends.
10 knots [1] The Design 1001 ship (full name Emergency Fleet Corporation Design 1001) was a wood - hulled cargo ship design approved for production by the United States Shipping Board ' s Emergency Fleet Corporation (EFT) in World War I. [2] They were referred to as the "Ferris"-type after its designer, naval architect Theodore E. Ferris. [2]
Container ships are a common means of commercial intermodal freight transport and now carry most seagoing non-bulk cargo. Container ship capacity is measured in twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU). Typical loads are a mix of 20-foot (1-TEU) and 40-foot (2-TEU) ISO-standard containers, with the latter predominant.
Technically, "cargo" refers to the goods carried aboard the ship for hire, while "freight" refers to the act of carrying of such cargo, but the terms have been used interchangeably for centuries. Generally, the modern ocean shipping business is divided into two classes: Liner business: typically (but not exclusively) container vessels (wherein ...
An illustration from a 1902 printing of Moby-Dick, one of the renowned American sea novels. Nautical fiction, frequently also naval fiction, sea fiction, naval adventure fiction or maritime fiction, is a genre of literature with a setting on or near the sea, that focuses on the human relationship to the sea and sea voyages and highlights nautical culture in these environments.