gather some simple facts for us all to learn and keep in mind in our daily routines. As far as history goes‚ the Egyptian coastal sailing ships were trading as early as around 3‚200 BC. Today‚ maritime transportation is at a stage where about 90-95% of international trade is carried on board ships of some sort. By the invention of the steam engine as early as 1704‚ ships were not subject to dominant wind patterns. Nature started to be a lesser degree obstacle in maritime transportation therefore making
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8- How long have you been a marine engineer? Answer: 8 years 9-How much time do you spend on ships? Answer: That depends on the company or the type of work. Generally‚ as an officer‚ you get one day off the ship for everyday worked. Right now i work 14 weeks away working on a ship‚ then I go home for 14 weeks. 10- Do you design new equipment for ships? Answer: Currently no. I work on a cruise ship on the operational side of things‚ so just maintaining the machine is a big enough job. We always
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journal article‚ ‘The Revolt On The Slave Ship Creole: Popular resistance to slavery in post-emancipation Nassau’ was written by Edward Eden. Dr. Edward Eden is a professor of English at Hanover College‚ Indiana‚ U.S.A. This article was taken from the ‘Journal of the Bahamas Historical Society‚ October 2000‚’ pages 13 through 20.’ As penned by the author the main purpose of this article is to familiarize its Bahamian readers with the revolt on the slave ship Creole in an effort to solicit sources
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Attendance for Owners H&M Underwriters towage warranty survey and local MSA towage survey for the voyage from Shanghai to Kholmsk. | INDEX S.No | Item | 1 | Introduction | 2 | General Layout | 3 | Towing Equipment | 4 | Stinger | 5 | Brief overview of pipe laying operations | 6 | Sea securing | 7 | AHT Posh Constant | Introduction: Attended on board the PLB Fortuna at ZPMC shipyard dock ‘0’‚ from June 04 to June 19 for the purpose of assisting the Owners H&M Underwriters
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rather stable – perhaps not as successful as in the years before‚ but still doing quite good. According to a Lloyd’s List article from October 2012‚ the LNG market has been doing much better than the other shipping sectors‚ with only around 5% idle ships. This of course is mainly due to the high demand for energy from Japan‚ where the same figure was twice as large prior to the Fukushima disaster (Lloyd’s list‚ 2012c). The situation in the spot and in the time charter markets has been different in
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about the collision of their ships last week at Lawis Ledge in Talisay‚ Cebu when they were called in by the Special Board of Marine Inquiry (SBMI) yesterday. The SBMI also called in the captain of Trans Asia Nine as the vessel was reportedly present in the accident area prior to the collision on the night of Aug. 16. Captain Reynan Bermejo of St. Thomas Aquinas said he was traversing the inbound lane on the way to Cebu when he noticed in the radar that another ship was in the same lane. Bermejo
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in the 15th century and the 16th century and is a light sailing ship used by the Spanish and Portuguese. It was invented by the Portuguese and used by both the Spanish and Portuguese to sail around the seas. They were 15 Metres long and weighed 80 tons. The other ships were giant and very big unlike the caravel which was small and not used in battle or war in any way. Body 1; the caravel was made to go faster than the normal ships with the square sails instead of the triangular sails which made
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Virginia coasts in his ship‚ the Queen Anne’s Revenge taking mostly valuables‚ rum‚ and weapons from other ships that crossed his path. He also captured ships in the harbor and seized citizens for ransom. “It is said that Blackbeard in battle array was an awesome sight and‚ to sailors of the day‚ as feared as the devil himself‚ to which many believed him akin.” (Pirates and Privateers) To prove his ruthlessness‚ Blackbeard stirred things up by lighting pots of sulfur in his own ship‚ or even shooting
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from Joseph O’ Connor’s Star of the sea which was penned in the year 2002. The passage makes use of a third person narrative view point as a result of which the readers are provided with a vivid image of passengers aboard a stormy sea ship. The passage talks about a ship afloat a stormy sea and how the passengers on the deck are caught unaware due to this storm. The author uses a descriptive style of writing with short crisp sentences that heighten the pace of the story. In the last two paragraphs however
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returns from his raid on Here Be Dragons. Upon his return‚ he notices Gulliver and immediately draws his sword at the sight of the slightly taller human creature. Proceeding to ask‚ “What be you doin’ on me ranky ship?” Gulliver replied‚ “I cannot help but to be bound to your ship when your scallywag crew has bounded me here beyond my own free will.” As the crew draws their swords out of anger of Gulliver’s insults he has made about them‚ The Captain instructs them to sheath their swords and
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