Later adapted for film, the story was written following the grounding of a ship carrying whisky.
Hitherto, banks have typically lent shipping lines as much as 80% of the value of a ship.
Once the pirates have taken control of a ship, military intervention is complicated because of the hostages on board.
The United States test launched a captured German V 2 rocket from the deck of a ship in 1947.
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The sharp exterior corners of the building resemble the prow of a ship.
"Our scientists found shattered bone and large hematomas which are indicative of a ship strike, " he told BBC News.
They stick him in a crate and shove him in the hold of a ship to take him home.
Typically 95% of a ship's structure is reusable, most of it valuable steel.
All the refracted light and reflection gives a feeling of infinite space, like being on the bow of a ship.
Like the captain of a ship, an adviser is paid to keep your portfolio on course in good times and bad.
Two years later Daly designed and developed a 64, 000-square-foot floating casino on three decks of a ship in Cape Canaveral, Fla.
The operator of a ship used to export livestock from the UK has applied to sail from the Port of Dover.
Buoys have been placed around the wreck of a ship which sank off the Devon coast to mark an exclusion zone.
Genta again produced a robust design that suggested the impermeability of a ship's porthole, while exhibiting constructional details worthy of fine jewelry.
The latest action in France follows the brief blockade of a ship carrying Cameroon timber at the Spanish port of Valencia on Saturday.
He also had a distinctive tattoo on his right thigh of a ship's steering wheel and an Armani stud earring in his left ear.
The master bathroom has a deep tub with teak lounge chairs next to it, like a swimming pool on the deck of a ship.
If all goes well, though, the days when a smoking funnel was an icon of every child's drawing of a ship on the horizon may be numbered.
He had keen blue eyes, deep-set and overhung with unruly gray eyebrows, and a nose that jutted out from his face like the prow of a ship.
Instead, Mr Zinni's mission was dominated by Israel's public-relations coup: its seizure off its Red Sea coast of a ship, the Karine-A, laden with 50 tonnes of arms.
This, members of the committee, is the equivalent of a ship's captain leaving on a difficult and uncharted voyage hoping to find his or her compass somewhere along the way.
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In a small pottery studio in Longton, Stoke-on-Trent, the steady hand of Peter Graves, 64, adds the finishing details to a delicately-painted picture of a ship inside an enamel box.
Regardless of current names, flags and shell companies, these vessels can be identified by their unique seven-digit hull numbers, known as IMO numbers, which are issued for the lifetime of a ship.
Oddly, Mr Ackroyd is most convincing when out among the hills and woods, just as the cockney Turner found his inspiration when strapped to the mast of a ship in a storm.
Since the useful life of a ship is around 25 years, the fleets of vessels ordered at that time (including a staggering 105m tonnes in 1973 alone) are currently heading for the scrapyard.
The unit was the subject of a recent TV movie about the Bin Laden raid in Pakistan and will feature in another film, about the rescue of a ship's captain kidnapped by Somali pirates.
'He would have sat on these pews and listened to the lesson from Jonah, given from a lofty pulpit that, as he wrote, "was in the likeness of a ship's bluff bows", ' says Dermot.
After lunch, a pair of engineers took me to see their laboratory: a drab eight-story concrete building, crammed with so many pipes and ducts that it felt like the engine room of a ship.
The only thing more impressive than Exxon's profits may be its lawyers: In its argument, the oil giant points to an 1818 maritime decision by the Supreme Court which says a company isn't liable for punitive damages based on the "wanton acts" of a ship's captain.
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