Some of the ships' companies were procuring ballast, others getting in water.

The ships' carpenters, he explained, could make the changes while the dummies were coming round to Plymouth.

In this year I was much engaged on schemes for compasses, and in June I sent my Paper on Discussions of Ships' Magnetism to the Royal Society.

Now I used to be in a seaport town, and I used to serve a lot of ships' captains.

In his sketch of her life in the 'Dictionary of National Biography,' Dr. Augustus Jessopp asserts that the Queen's ships 'were notoriously and scandalously ill-furnished with stores and provisions for the sailors, and it is impossible to lay the blame on anyone but the Queen.'

Similar infections continued occasionally to scourge our ships' companies, and still more frequently French and Spanish ships' companies, till near the close of the eighteenth century.'

I myself heard the late Lord Alcester speak of the anxiety that had been caused him by the state of his ships' magazines after the attack on the Alexandria forts in 1882.

This substance, which is called lupis, is in high request, being employed in the native weaving; while is chiefly used for ships' rigging.

The cultivation of sisal has only in recent times been prosecuted vigorously; and the extraction of the fiber from the leaves, and the subsequent spinning for ships' rigging, are already done by steam-machinery.

In the afternoon the boats went again for water, but as the natives recommenced hostilities they were ordered to keep clear, whilst the ships' guns were worked for a quarter of an hour; then the boats' crews landed and burned all the houses between the watering place and the Morai, killing some six or seven of the natives.

And Rosenbom, the boatswain on the Dristigheten, told as much as he knew of the ships' builders, and of those who had manned them; and of the fates they had met.

Renault took advantage of this feeling, and from the young men of the colony, such as Company's servants, ships' officers, supercargoes, and European inhabitants, he made a company of volunteers, to whom, at their own request, he gave his son, an officer of the garrison, as commander.

No American man-of-war ever sailed with a complement composed of nothing but able seamen; and some of the hardest fought battles that occurred during this war, were fought by ships' companies that were materially worse than common.

From a little distance the station looked for all the world like ships' masts that had been taken out and ranged in a circle round the low buildings.

The inability of the landing force to advance beyond range of the ships' guns bears witness to their military incapacity.

The ships' carpenters were set to work on the Phram, while the dejection and drinking increased.

We have to mourn the loss of many ships, still more the loss of splendid ships' companies and their heroic captains.

All these measured mile trials were made under the usual Admiralty conditions, that is to say, the ships' bottoms and the screws were clean, and the force of the wind and state of the sea were not such as to make the trials useless for purposes of comparison.

In point of fact, Sir Frederick Dashwood had become keenly alive to a sense of the disgrace he was likely to incur, in the event of the ships' getting round, and robbing him of the credit of capturing the lugger.

Pains were taken to get early Ship news at Lloyd's, and the house was used by underwriters and insurers of Ships' cargoes.

As the racer veered north, up the broad darkness of the Hudsonthe Hudson sparkling with city illumination on either hand, with still or moving ships' lights on the breast of the watersBohannan murmured: "Even now, as your partner in this enterprise" "My lieutenant," corrected the Master.

BANIAN DAYS, days when no meat is served out to ships' crews.

BOYCE, WILLIAM, composer, chiefly of church music, born in London; published a collection of the "Cathedral Music of the Old English Masters"; composed "Hearts of Oak," a naval song sung by ships' crews at one time before going into action (1710-1779).

Columbus established himself on the banks of the Hiebra, sending his brother Bartholomew Columbus, Adelantado of Hispaniola, in command of sixty-eight men in ships' boats to Veragua.

The ships' boats also were manned, and joined in the pursuit.