In 1761, a British carpenter named John Harrison built the first marine chronometer, capable of keeping time on board a rolling boat and providing ship captains with a way to determine their longitude during a voyage.
The U.S. ship verbally warned the smaller boat when it was 1, 200 yards (1, 100 meters) away and fired at least one warning shot before the decision was made to fire shots to disable the boat, the officials said.
Laura Murphy, a fellow river cruise passenger, told CNN that the ship's captain anchored the boat in Luxor after being warned against docking at any of the stops along the Nile because those areas may be unsafe for tourists.
One of Belfast's most established actors, Dan Gordon used his performance to promote Northern Ireland's ship building history through his play The Boat Factory.
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Instead, the four pirates -- who had scuttled their boat when they boarded the ship armed with AK-47s -- took Phillips with them aboard the ship's 28-foot lifeboat, Quinn said.
Then, in 1960, a notebook was found containing another Essex narrative, parallel with Owen Chase's, written by Thomas Nickerson, cabin boy on the ship and a crew member of Chase's castaway boat.
"They're still on the ship because they don't know where to dock the boat, " said agent Bailey Chung.
The pirates raced toward the ship, the Captain Maslov, in a high-speed boat late Thursday afternoon and attacked as it headed from Colombo, Sri Lanka, to Mombasa, Kenya, the ministry said.
Since we're all in the same boat, we should choose a captain of our ship who is a brave good man, who knows how to steer a vessel through troubled waters, to the calm seas and the clear sides of our more perfect union.
As a city, Nagasaki has a remarkable history (it was the only place in Japan open to foreigners for over 200 years), and the boat trip is surprisingly attractive, past a hypermodern cruise ship terminal and countless inlets filled with shipyards, all cradled between mountains.
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The same goes for train travel and car travel but there is an exception for travel by boat: if you travel by ocean liner, cruise ship, or other form of luxury water transportation for business purposes, there is a daily limit on the amount you can deduct.
It was discovered by a survey ship with sonar equipment involved in the search for the Weymouth-based boat.
Officials described the course of events as standard procedures when a small boat gets too close to a U.S. Navy ship.
"Strong waves pushed water inside the boat and one woman screamed causing a commotion that tilted the ship capsizing it, " one eye witness said.
Port officials at Chipoka said the boat was overloaded with passengers being ferried early on Saturday morning to the ship MV Illala anchored offshore.
The British Ministry of Defense said a British crew Tuesday had boarded a small boat that they believe was involved in an attack on a Danish-registered ship earlier that day.
But the fire knocked out the ship's propulsion system and left the vessel slowly drifting in the Gulf until a second tug boat arrived Tuesday.
An American businessman transported the ship to the Golden Gate city where he hoped to harness its Hollywood fame to operate it as a tour boat.
The same U.S. ship -- with the help of an HC-144 maritime patrol aircraft -- spotted and intercepted a similar boat with six migrants south of Marathon, Florida.
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But India has said that irrespective of the location of the ship, it has the right to try the marines as the fishermen were unarmed Indians on board an Indian fishing boat.
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