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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.
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.
Neptune (1971–2001) She was built in 1955 as Meteor for Bergen Line. Later she caught fire and her remains sold to Epirotiki in 1971. Finally scrapped in 2001 at Aliaga as Neptun: Atlas (1972–1986) She was designed as cargo ship for Holland America Line. Later the ship became a cruise ship for Holland America Line as Ryndam in 1951. Later ...
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
This leads many early observers of Nautilus to believe that the vessel is some species of marine mammal, or perhaps a sea monster not yet known to science. To submerge deeply in a short time, Nautilus uses a technique called "hydroplaning", in which the vessel dives down at a steep angle. [3] Nautilus supports a crew that gathers food from the ...
Pequod is a fictional 19th-century Nantucket whaling ship that appears in the 1851 novel Moby-Dick by American author Herman Melville. Pequod and her crew, commanded by Captain Ahab, are central to the story, which, after the initial chapters, takes place almost entirely aboard the ship during a three-year whaling expedition in the Atlantic, Indian and South Pacific oceans.
Prior to praying the canonical hours at seven fixed prayer times, Oriental Orthodox Christians wash their hands, face and feet (cf. Agpeya, Shehimo). [80] [2] [3] In the Eastern Orthodox and Greek-Catholic Churches, the term "ablution" refers to consuming the remainder of the Gifts (the Body and Blood of Christ) at the end of the Divine Liturgy.