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And these women sing an enchanting song, a song so alluring that all sailors who hear it crash into the rocks and die."
When the sailors mutinied at sea in a demand for humane conditions, it was these teenagers that fed the crew.
One day in 1819, 3,000 miles off the coast of Chile, in one of the most remote regions of the Pacific Ocean, 20 American sailors watched their ship flood with seawater.
So most of us have never experienced a situation as frightening as the one in which these sailors found themselves, but we all know what it's like to be afraid.
I have friends in the Navy who tell me they sail with 1,000 sailors at a time, but on Kendal there were only 21 crew.
Muslim Arab poets and scholars served in the royal court alongside Byzantine Greek sailors and architects.
Lumbering increased Minty’s physical strength and put her in touch with free black sailors who shipped the wood to the North.
But in fact, pilots and sailors out on the ocean still claim to see the moon illusion.
There's a story about these sailors that were transporting a stone across the ocean when they ran into some trouble and the stone actually fell in.
The sailors got back to the main island and they told everyone what had happened.
These are sailors who in the darkness, in the hull of the vessel, can distinguish as many as 32 different sea swells moving through the canoe at any one point in time, distinguishing local wave disturbances from the great currents that pulsate across the ocean, that can be followed with the same ease that a terrestrial explorer would follow a river to the sea.
Nicknamed Unsinkable Sam, he rode to Gibraltar with the rescued crew and served as a ship cat on three more vessels – one of which also sank - before retiring to the Belfast Home for Sailors.
Many may not think of cats as serviceable sailors, or cooperative companions of any kind.
With the help of the fluttering sprite Ariel, the magician destroys his brother’s ship and washes its sailors ashore.
And as Prospero and Ariel close in on Antonio, Caliban joins forces with some drunken sailors, who hatch a comic plot to take the island.
These heroes, alongside countless sailors, soothsayers, and rebel demigods, named themselves the Argonauts after their sturdy ship.
Their adventure had taken many dark turns, and the weary sailors were desperate to rest in a safe harbor.
Rum made from sugar harvested in European colonies in the Caribbean became a staple for sailors and was traded to North America.
Sailors were probably the early adopters of the more portable versions of it, because no matter where the sun was, no matter what the condition of the stars were, they would always be able to find north.
Or, in the words of F. Scott Fitzgerald, "As the moon rose higher, the inessential houses began to melt away until gradually I became aware of the old island here that once flowered for Dutch sailors' eyes, a fresh green breast of the new world."
No one could possibly be blamed for their exasperation over Temple's performance here (shouting lines at the top of her lungs) or the perverseness of her dance steps, sashaying with a crowd of sailors to "At the Codfish Ball".
Is he trekking out to the waterfront to pick up some sailors?
They both look great as young sailors.
I was born and raised in Norfolk Virginia and met my share of "different" sailors- I even married one!
Marxist theory and perspectives of class struggle are demonstrated as the sailors who represent the oppressed workers and the officers who represent the elite of society.
On June 14 1905, during the Russian Revolution of that year, sailors aboard the Russian battleship Potemkin rebelled against their oppressive officers.
The film elegantly combines interviews with footage which was shot by the sailors themselves aboard their boats.
Then the guys start playing Japanese sailors with the standard racist caricature of the day.
The best female is one of the Coast Guard sailors in the rescue center and she's on camera for about two minutes in the whole film.
Hope, on an island with sailors, dreams aloud of being in a bathtub with a geisha girl "steering his ship".
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