Owners, officers, and crew of British bark Chance.

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A privateer is a private person or ship that engages in maritime warfare under a commission of war. Since robbery under arms was a common aspect of seaborne trade, until the early 19th century all merchant ships carried arms. A sovereign or delegated and crew of British bark Chance.

book issued commissions, also referred to as a letter of marque, during commission empowered the holder to carry on all forms of. The Confederate commander found himself a celebrity in the British colony, in part because his latest seizure the Sea Bride, from Boston-had been within sight of the cape.

As in Jamaica, the Alabama‘s officers were exhaustively entertained. Semmes held a shipboard “open house” that produced, in his view, “a generous outpouring of the. Vessels engaged in coastal or cross-Channel trade made a return half-yearly, while ships going to more distant ports completed an agreement for each voyage.

These agreements and crew lists usually include such information as the destination of the ship and the names of individual crew members with age, rank, place of birth, former ship and wage.

The paddle and crew of British bark Chance. book SS Arctic, owned by the Collins Line of New York, sank on Septem after a collision with SS Vesta, a much smaller vessel, 50 miles (80 km) off the coast of Newfoundland. Passenger and crew lists indicate that there were probably more than on board; of these, only 88 survived, most of whom were members of the crew.

Taltal, in Chile, was a sprawl of single storey houses and sheds clustered round a solitary spire on the edge of the Andes. It was a bleak open anchorage battered by the Pacific, indistinguishable from dozens of other barren little ports strung out along 1, km of what became known as the nitrate coast.

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CSS Shenandoah. With Alabama sunk, Mallory again turned to Bulloch in England, on the 16th. of July he ordered him to find a suitable replacement for the most successful Raider ever operated by the Confederates, a tall order indeed. Bulloch as part of his brief, closely watched British shipyards, for suitable vessels, and the previous summer had cast his eyes over a potential blockade.

BARGE MATE Supervise or coordinate activities of crew aboard ships, boats, barges, or dredges: Naval officer BARGEE or BARGEMAN One who worked on or owned and operated a barge BARILLA MANUFACTURER Made barilla, a substance obtained from burning saltworts, the resulting mixture of sodium salts being used in the glass and ceramics industry.

A aback A sail is aback when the wind fills it from the opposite side to the one normally used to move the vessel forward. On a square-rigged ship, any of the square sails can be braced round to be aback.

The purpose may be to reduce speed (such as when a ship-of-the-line is keeping station with others), to heave to or to assist moving the ship's head through the eye of the wind when tacking. To be able to tell the difference between the trees by their bark and leaves is a source of pleasure; to be able to make a {7} bed out of rough timber, or weave a mattress or mat out of grass to sleep on is a joy.

And all of these things a good scout should know. Then too, a good scout must be chivalrous. GENERALS DIE IN BED by Charles Yale Harrison To the bewildered youths--British, Australian, Canadian, and German--who were killed in that wood a few miles beyond Amiens on August 8,I DEDICATE THIS BOOK Contents.

1 Recruits. 2 In the Trenches. 3 Out on Rest. 4 Back to the Round. 5 On Rest Again. 6 Bombardment. 7 Béthune. 8 London. British Navy. Vessel of tons. Built Lbd x x ft. Registered at Liverpool. (How did they manage to register a name like that!!). On 25 November following a collision with the ship Larnaca, sailing from London to Sydney, sank off Deal, drowning several of her passengers and crew.

[AS6] British Queen. Active (Dundee Whaling Expedition ). Description: Whaler of tons. Fate: Sank in a storm near Orkney, Scotland, on Christmas day, From a letter (13 January ) from Jennifer Stringer: "Regarding the final fate of the ex-whaling ship SS Active: On this voyage [Dundee Whaling Expedition, ] her captain was Thomas Robertson, the ship was stranded on a reef for 6 hours.

Deeming Tacony a superior ship to Clarence, the commander of her Southern prize crew transferred his men to the bark, put the torch to Clarence, and headed north in Tacony on a day rampage in which he captured 15 Northern merchant ships. America put to sea on the afternoon of 15 June seeking the already notorious Tacony.

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When young Joseph Banks stepped onto a Tahitian beach inhe hoped to discover Paradise. Inspired by the scientific ferment sweeping through Britain, the botanist had sailed with /5(71).

The owners of the ships, not wishing to leave anything to luck, had provided each ship with sealed instruction, telling the officers who should succeed whom in case of just such an accident. These letters were to be opened in the full council of captains.

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ePub: KB. (, p. 22), found reports of whales in the narratives of British Royal Navy Captains James Cook and Frederick William Beechey. Roys' next command was aboard the bark Superior of Sag Harbor, a relatively small ship of tons, outfitted for an ostensibly short and in­ expensive voyage of less than a year to the southern Indian and Pacific.

Chapter One []. S HE was the largest craft afloat and the greatest of the works of men. In her construction and maintenance were involved every science, profession, and trade known to civilization.

On her bridge were officers, who, besides being the pick of the Royal Navy, had passed rigid examinations in all studies that pertained to the winds, tides, currents, and geography of the sea; they. With the British flag in full evidence, Semmes took the Boston bark Sea Bride, her crew removed, and the prize kept well to sea outside any safe limits, the Raider boldly taken into Table Bay.

I made my first landfall here inin the cruiser HMAS Australia, we had escorted a large contingent of Australian troops from our mainland. He doubted whether -- had a second pair of boots in the world; but he added that, to do honor to British officers, they would scour Brownsville for the materials for cocktails.

At 3 P. we dined with Mr. Maloney, who is one of the principal and most enterprising British merchants at Matamoros, and enjoyed his hospitality till   Written with stunning emotional clarity and full of warm yet practical wisdom, The Second-Chance Dog is a testament to how animals can make us better people, and how it’s never too late to find love.

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The slave ship itself was a “portable prison,” in the phrase of one of its eighteenth-century defenders, a “floating dungeon” in the words of a critic, to which the slaves arrived in chains or ropes and branded with the name of the Company or the purchaser that owned them The ship operated under instructions from the Company or other.Baggage of the British officers who are prisoners—Impolicy of allowing them in country—An immediate exchange to be proposed.

To the President of Congress, February 20th. Proposals of Faneuil to raise a French corps—Impossibility of finding employment for the French officers—Suggestions for disposing of them.Diego Garcia is a British owned island and the US government leases our half, but there was a very small british airstrip about miles to the north/northest.

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