He entertained his shipmates with comedy routines broadcast over the ship's sound system.

VOA: special.2010.10.17

"And Quentin,with his unorthodox methods of navigation, this fearless explorer took this ship across and brought it in with flying colors, and that's why I'm here."

VOA: standard.2010.03.08

"What Darwin Saw" tells of the adventures of a young man who travels around the world as a ship's scientist.

VOA: special.2009.02.27

The ship's Captain Ahab is seeking to find the great,white whale that destroyed his former ship and bit off his leg.

VOA: special.2010.06.11

She researched some of the places Darwin visited on his trip on the ship H.M.S.Beagle in the eighteen thirties.

VOA: special.2009.02.27

He offered the pirates a deal. He suggested the pirates could escape using one of the ship's lifeboats.

VOA: special.2009.05.27

Their goal: hijack the ship and hold the crew hostage until the ship's owners paid for their release.

VOA: special.2009.05.27

In real life, Brown is credited with keeping people's spirits up in the lifeboat until they were rescued by another ship,the Carpathia.

VOA: special.2010.03.08

Part of Eleanor Creesy's work was to find out how far the ship had traveled each day.

VOA: special.2009.12.23

The two became friends. John Henslow suggested that Charles Darwin take the unpaid position of naturalist for a trip on the British ship H.M.S.Beagle.

VOA: special.2009.02.25

A navigator would take the last known position of the ship, then add the ship's speed.

VOA: special.2009.12.23

There was some evidence the explosion was caused by an accident in the ship's fuel tanks.

VOA: special.2010.07.08

When bad weather prevented navigators from seeing the sun,moon or stars, they had to use a method called "dead reckoning" to find the ship's position.

VOA: special.2009.12.23

Later,Amelia's radio signals were received by a United States Coast Guard ship near the island.

VOA: special.2010.05.26

But by nineteen seventy-nine, the world's first nuclear-powered submarine had become an old ship.

VOA: special.2010.06.11

So each hour's time difference between the ship and the starting point marks a ship's progress of fifteen degrees of longitude to the east or west.

VOA: special.2010.07.14

There were three others with him: the ships captain,the cook, and a sailor.

VOA: special.2010.03.06

The ship's captain sent out a historic message: "Underway on nuclear power."

VOA: special.2010.06.11

But they took the ship's captain hostage in a small boat.

VOA: special.2009.04.25

The stage itself becomes the ship's surface with sails and rigging.

VOA: special.2010.06.11

Visitors can see some of the ship's treasure at the museum.

VOA: special.2010.03.22

The ships cook sat in the bottom of the boat.

VOA: special.2010.03.06

There was such a large crowd that a ship's cable, a heavy rope, was stretched across the portico to separate the crowd from Jackson as he took the oath and delivered his inaugural address.

VOA: special.2009.01.19

This record is called a ship's log.

VOA: special.2009.12.23