Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Sea of Love is a 1989 American neo-noir [4] thriller film directed by Harold Becker, written by Richard Price and starring Al Pacino, Ellen Barkin and John Goodman.The story concerns a New York City detective trying to catch a serial killer who finds victims through the singles column in a newspaper.
The Ocean ships were a class of sixty cargo ships built in the United States by Todd Shipyards Corporation during the Second World War for the British Ministry of War Transport under contracts let by the British Purchasing Commission. Eighteen were lost to enemy action and eight to accidents; survivors were sold postwar into merchant service.
After World War II, several ocean freighters and tankers were transported to the Great Lakes and converted to bulk carriers as a way to acquire ships cheaply. The oil tanker Chiwawa became the bulk freighter MV Lee A. Tregurtha [ 14 ] In addition, the freighter Outer Island was originally commissioned as LCT-203 for use as a tank landing craft ...
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.
The Nantucket series (also known as the Nantucket trilogy or the Islander trilogy [1]) is a set of alternate history novels written by S. M. Stirling. [2] [3]The novels focus on the island of Nantucket in Massachusetts which was transported back in time to 1250 BC due to something called "The Event".
On the Oceans of Eternity is a 2000 American science fiction novel by Canadian-American writer S. M. Stirling, the third and final book of the Nantucket alternate history series. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The novel was released in the United States and Canada on April 10, 2000, and was released in the United Kingdom on April 29 of the same year.
Sea Otters are one of the cutest animals on the planet. Here are some of facts that will make you fall in love with them all over again. SEE ALSO: These tiny bats look just like cotton balls 1.
Nationality Sailed for Name First voyage of exploration Last voyage of exploration Arctic [1] North Atlantic Indian Pacific South Atlantic Southern; Portuguese