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Game engine recreation is a type of video game engine remastering process wherein a new game engine is written from scratch as a clone of the original with the full ability to read the original game's data files.
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A prize crew is the selected members of a ship chosen to take over the operations of a captured ship. Prize crews were required to take their prize to appropriate prize courts, which would determine whether the ship's officers and crew had sufficient cause to have the value of the prize awarded to them.
A repair ship is a naval auxiliary ship designed to provide maintenance support to warships. Repair ships provide similar services to destroyer , submarine and seaplane tenders or depot ships , but may offer a broader range of repair capability including equipment and personnel for repair of more significant machinery failures or battle damage.
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The capture of the French Frigate Tamise (formerly HMS Thames) by Santa Margarita, under the command of Captain T. Byam Martin, off the Scilly Isles, 8 June 1796. Nicholas Pocock In September 1795 a French squadron captured Hibberts , Chisolm, master, as she was sailing from Jamaica to London, but Santa Margarita recaptured her.
In admiralty law prizes (from the Old French prise, "taken, seized" [1]) are equipment, vehicles, vessels, and cargo captured during armed conflict. The most common use of prize in this sense is the capture of an enemy ship and its cargo as a prize of war. In the past, the capturing force would commonly be allotted a share of the worth of the ...
On 13 October 1775, the Continental Congress authorized the purchase of the merchant brig Defiance. [2] The ship was acquired in mid-November and moored in Wharton and Humphreys shipyard in Philadelphia where she was converted into a warship by Joshua Humphreys (hull strengthening), John Barry (re-rigging), and John Falconer (ordnance and provisioning) at a cost of £296.4s.6d. [3]