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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.
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 (1785 ship), a 218-ton (bm) merchantman built in 1778 in America that made one voyage as a whaler and that was last listed in 1803. Neptune (1796 EIC ship), a 1468-ton (bm) East Indiaman that made eight voyages for the British East India Company (EIC) Neptune (1797 ship) was the first ship built in Quebec after the British occupation ...
Neptune's Raging Fury is an English Broadside Ballad. The ballad is told from the perspective of a sailor, who is explaining the perils of sea voyages to those who stay on land. Copies of the broadside can be found at the National Library of Scotland, the British Library, the University of Glasgow Library, and Magdelene College. Online ...
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.