Quotes About Ship

Until you, Tavia, there has never been a female Breed. Not one, not ever. Our race began thousands of years ago, when a ship carrying a group of biologically advanced otherworlders crash-landed on this planet.

The ship passed over Nuremberg, where fringe politician Adolf Hitler, whose Nazi Party had been trounced in the 1928 elections, had just delivered a speech touting selective infanticide.

masts, and rigging, practically every exposed surface of the ship except for the sails.

and they could tack, that is, shift their course to take advantage of the wind

quietly made his way to San Antonio. He was joined there in the dark water lapping at the ship's hull by Juan de Cartagena

the task was critical. Aboard a swaying ship, the ampolletas were the only reliable timepiece

Thus Magellan's flagship, Trinidad, weighed 100 tons; San Antonio, which carried many of the provisions, weighed 120 tons;

the captain depended on them for dead reckoning and changing the watches. A ship without a functioning ampolleta was effectively disabled.

the captain depended on them for dead reckoning and changing the watches. A ship without a functioning ampolleta was effectively disabled. Operating the ampolletas aboard the armada had religious

Under cover of darkness, they boarded San Antonio and rushed to the captain's cabin

Al cuarto!" they cried. Al cuarto! On deck! On deck!

entering with a flourish of steel, rousting the hapless Mesquita out of his bunk. This had once been Cartagena's ship

As the two struggled, Quesada's guard took Hernández hostage, and suddenly the ship was without officers

The mutineers in control of San Antonio swiftly converted her into a battleship.

Was it any wonder that the ship, with all its filth and noise and

the authorities in that distant outpost of the Spanish empire found a Portuguese caravel that had wandered into the Caribbean.

She turned out to be a ship filled with secrets. In 1511, Cristóbal de Haro had backed a covert Portuguese

The helmsman steered, the ship moved on; Yet never a breeze up-blew; The mariners all 'gan work the ropes, Where they were wont to do; They raised their limbs like lifeless tools— We were a ghastly crew.

Unwilling to commit the entire fleet to the river, he dispatched Santiago, the smallest ship

The ship's barber, another specialist, was deceptively named because trimming beards

The fleet's barber was named Hernando Bustamente, who shipped out aboard Concepción

It was not that he lacked discipline, or the support of the men; the problem was that Espinosa, a soldier, was simply not qualified to command a ship.

The ship soon departed, but Carvalho remained to oversee the factory, a sojourn that lasted four years.)

the seas began to churn, tossing the ship as if she were nothing more than an oversized piece of flotsam.