A ship making a voyage is an army waging war.

And full of hope day followed day 15 While that stout Ship at anchor lay Beside the shores of Wight; The May had then made all things green; And, floating there, in pomp serene, That Ship was goodly to be seen, 20 His pride and his delight!

His first act was to climb the nearest sandhill and to gaze out towards the offing where the pirate ship had been the day before.

The veering being much more rapid between 8 and 9 P.M. when the storm was at its height, the ship must at that time, have been nearer the focus.

"They are regular John Bulls," answered Ithuel, positively, "and the ship is the spiteful Proserpyne," for so the New Hampshire man always called his old prison.

"The ship in the inner harbour, your Ladyship," he answered, when his examination was finished, "which is, I suppose, the vessel that Madam means, is just such a ship as does a sailor's eye good to look on.

Some thought the ship would be the most easily defended, on account of the size of the crater, and because it had a natural ditch around it, but so much property was accumulated in and around the crater that it could not be abandoned without a loss to which the governor had no idea of submitting.

"As certainly as this ship is English.

" "Still deeper and deeper in thy effronteryand what if this be true?" "Sir, a ship is a seaman's mistressnay, when fairly under a pennant, with a war declared, he may be said to be wedded to her, lawfully or not.

On 24th May Banks and Solander went to inspect her, and on their return to town Banks wrote to the Admiralty that he should not go the voyage as "the ship was neither roomy nor convenient enough for my purpose, nor no ways proper for the voyage."

Their finest and fastest ships were single screws, probably because, in very bad weather, the single screw was better.

Then the ship will be a house for us to live in, and a capital good house, too.

On July 10, 1917, a decoy ship, H.M.S. Glen, a small schooner with auxiliary power and armed with one 12-pounder and one 6-pounder gun, commanded by Sub-Lieutenant K. Morris, R.N.R., was in a position about forty miles south-west of Weymouth when a submarine was sighted on the surface some three miles away.

Another war ship which especially distinguished herself was the Oregon, a Western-built ship, which had sailed from San Francisco all the way around Cape Horn in order to reach the seat of war.

Our ships, too, had become the great carriers of the deep; our exports for 1807 were $108,343,750, of which $59,622,558 were of foreign origin; our ports, remote from the seat of war, had become the depots of goods; and our commerce, whitening the surface of every ocean, had begun to tempt the cupidity of contending nations.

The boats were all there; the ship was intactas intact as when Billy Edwards had taken chargebut the cheery, lovable ensign and his men had vanished without trace or clue.

Twelve ships-of-the-line and the Havannah!it becomes people who cannot keep their own, to divide the world between them!

Like their predecessors, the ships of the line, it is really battleships which in a naval war dominate the situation.

" "Do you hold, sir," inquired Captain Truck, "that a ship is a brig, and a brig a ship.

These ships, it is hoped, may be some check on the Russians, and ostensibly they only go up to Constantinople to save Christians.

I presume that the corvette asked the names of the English vessels, communicated her own, and let the fact be known that the ships to windward were enemies.

And, as burgess-ship, hostess-ship, and mistress-ship are derivatives, and not compounds, I think they ought to follow the same principle, and be written burgesship, hostesship, mistresship.

That ship was the Pontiac which your father bought.

And know my Ships are my peculiar Care.

A boatswain on board an English ship-of-war is a more important personage than he is apt to be on board an American.