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Wash This Blood Clean From My Hand (French: Sous les vents de Neptune, lit. "Under Neptune's Winds") is a crime novel by French author Fred Vargas, originally published in France in 2004. The novel is part of her Commissaire Adamsberg series. As with many of Vargas' novels in English translation, the English title is not a literal translation.
Neptune's Navy is the name that the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society uses to refer to the ships it operates. [ 1 ] The Sea Shepherd vessels (Neptune’s Navy) are used to disrupt or hinder illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing (IUU), whaling or sealing operations.
MS Antonia Graza (based on the SS Andrea Doria) – derelict Italian luxury ocean liner in Ghost Ship, 2002; Aquanaut 3 – experimental submarine, 30,000 Leagues Under the Sea, 2007; Arabella – Captain Blood with Errol Flynn, 1935; Argo – galley, Jason and the Argonauts, 1963, 2000; USS Argus Hospital ship, World War Z, 2013
But in recent years, companies have introduced more technically advanced vessels: like Le Commandant Charcot, which was the world’s first passenger vessel with a Polar Class 2 hull — meaning ...
Neptune's Car was launched in 1853 and by 1855 the vessel had already developed a reputation for speed. It was 216 feet long and weighed 1,617 tons. [ 6 ] According to the New York Herald , Patten was a last minute replacement for the ship's previous captain, who had taken ill shortly before the vessel was set to travel the world.
The ship is an accurate replica above the waterline, but sporting a partly steel hull, planked in timber and two main engines with Schottel drive. The Neptune is currently a tourist attraction in the port of Genoa , Italy, where its interior can be visited for a 6 euro entry fee for adults and 4 euro for children.
Noah's Ark, the vessel by which God spares Noah, his family, and a remnant of all the world's animals from the flood. ( Christian mythology ) Chinese treasure ship (also Baochuan ), a large wooden ship in the fleet of admiral Zheng He , who led seven voyages during the early 15th-century Ming dynasty.
Beside their original appearances in Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas and The Mysterious Island, Nautilus and Captain Nemo have appeared in numerous other works.. In the 1954 film adaptation of the first novel and in The Return of Captain Nemo, it is suggested that Nautilus is powered by nuclear energy (discovered by Nemo himself), and that Nemo uses the same energy to destroy Vulcania ...