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41Line of battle ship — Line Line, n. [OE. line, AS. l[=i]ne cable, hawser, prob. from L. linea a linen thread, string, line, fr. linum flax, thread, linen, cable; but the English word was influenced by F. ligne line, from the same L. word linea. See {Linen}.] 1. A… …
42line of battle ship — Line Line, n. [OE. line, AS. l[=i]ne cable, hawser, prob. from L. linea a linen thread, string, line, fr. linum flax, thread, linen, cable; but the English word was influenced by F. ligne line, from the same L. word linea. See {Linen}.] 1. A… …
43Canterbury (ship) — The Canterbury , a.k.a. Canterbury Merchant , was the ship which transported William Penn and James Logan from England to Philadelphia in 1699.William Penn, Mary Maples Dunn, Richard S. Dunn, Edwin B. Bronner and David Fraser (1981 1987), The… …
44Poonah (ship) — The Poonah, named after the city of Poonah in western India, was a, three masted sailing ship of 1199 tons, owned by Tyser Haviside and was built in 1867 by William Pile at Sunderland. [ cite news| url = http://www.red duster.co.uk/tyser.htm |… …
45Hair compass — Hair Hair (h[^a]r), n. [OE. her, heer, h[ae]r, AS. h[=ae]r; akin to OFries. h[=e]r, D. & G. haar, OHG. & Icel. h[=a]r, Dan. haar, Sw. h[*a]r; cf. Lith. kasa.] 1. The collection or mass of filaments growing from the skin of an animal, and forming… …
46To set by the compass — Set Set (s[e^]t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Set}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Setting}.] [OE. setten, AS. setton; akin to OS. settian, OFries. setta, D. zetten, OHG. sezzen, G. setzen, Icel. setja, Sw. s[ a]tta, Dan. s?tte, Goth. satjan; causative from the root… …
47gyro compass — A form of compass used for steering a ship consisting of a rapidly spinning rotor so swung as to maintain its axis in the geographical meridian in pointing to the true north, often equipped with a course recorder so that the course of the vessel… …
48deviation of the compass — Departure of the mariner s compass from the magnetic meridian, owing to the ship s magnetism or other local causes • • • Main Entry: ↑deviate …
49List of ship names of the Royal Navy — This is an alphabetical list of all the names of ships that have ever been in service with the Royal Navy. Many of the names have been re used over the years and thus represent more than one ship.Altogether over 13,000 ships have been in service… …
50Dai Ichi Daihoumaru Ship case — The Dai Ichi Daihoumaru Ship Incident (第一大邦丸事件 [Dai Ichi Daihoumaru jiken] refers to an incident where the South Korean Coast Guard shot and killed Seto Jujiro (瀬戸 重次郎), the head fisherman of the Japanese Dai Ichi Daihoumaru ship on February 4,… …
