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A group of sailors experience all sorts of events while on the SS Glencairn.
The festivities began when a group of Spanish women board the ship and bring fruit and smuggle rum for the sailors.
This showed how lonely these sailors became while on board for such an extended period of time.
The sailors began acting crazy and got drunk very quickly.
Sailors began hitting each other and one sailor even took a broken rum bottle and stabbed a fellow sailor.
You can easily tell how bored sailors become because of how they acted when the Spanish girls cam on board.
Very quickly we find out that the local magistrate, Sir Humphrey (Charles Laughton), is the mastermind behind their scheme of tricking ships into wrecking on the shores of Cornwall, murdering the sailors and stealing their cargo.
Drug store ice cream scooper and soda server Clara Bow (as Ruby Nolan) scams Pacific Coast sailors for gift clerk boss Harry Green (as Solomon Bimberg).
When the men find out they're being strung along, they make tracks; and, Bow swears off sailors.
If all else, U.S. Navy Sailors, like myself who wear the cloth of the nation, when viewing a portrayal of our duties, deserve to see them portrayed correctly.
The talented cast act this excellent screen rendition of Eugene O'Neill's play (it's adapted from three of his one-act plays)about crew sailors aboard a freighter steamer called Glencairn carrying charge containing war-smuggling,TNT, explosives from US to England, at the beginning WWII.
She is a prostitute or too loose with the men especially the sailors.
The submarine that Putin was on resembled the Kursk, which exploded during a similar military exercise in 2000, killing 118 sailors.
Indeed, China offered South Korea a veiled warning that it “should not sweat the small stuff,” implying that the unprovoked killing of 46 South Korean sailors is a petty matter, and certainly not one that will cause China to rethink its alliance with North Korea.
Lee must not only calculate how tough to be with North Korea in response to the death of the Cheonan sailors, but also find a way to keep working with Kim Jong-il’s police state.
When sailors cannot rely on maps or charts, they must navigate by sight, and that is precisely our situation today.
In 1988, the reef was the scene of a Chinese attack that killed 72 Vietnamese sailors and sunk two of their ships.
In March 2010, a North Korean submarine torpedoed a South Korean ship on the high seas, killing 46 sailors – and sinking any prospect of an early resumption of negotiations to implement the North Korea’s 2005 commitment to eliminate all its nuclear programs.
A decade later, in the midst of the Napoleonic Wars, with the British attacking American ships and impressing sailors, Congress broke with the past.
South Korea undoubtedly faces the biggest dilemma, and the way forward will have to await the conclusions of the investigation into the sinking of its warship and the deaths of its sailors.
In fact, just last month, two US sailors were indicted for raping a Japanese woman.
In April, the United States Navy announced an experimental program called LOCUST (Low-Cost UAV Swarming Technology), which officials promise will “autonomously overwhelm an adversary” and thus “provide Sailors and Marines a decisive tactical advantage.”
Were the Governing Council to miss the coming turn in the European economy while blithely raising interest rates, they would be portrayed as drunken sailors on a rate-raising binge.
The Imperial Rescript of Soldiers and Sailors of 1882 set out the ideology of the "family state," which framed hierarchical social relations based on authority, blood ties, and age.
Fans of firearms refer to it as the big bazooka; followers of Colin Powell advocate deploying overwhelming force; pyrophobes call it a firewall; sailors like to tie themselves to the mast.
After all, can anyone imagine French sailors eating “spotted dick” or any other culinary peculiarity of the Royal Navy?
There is little doubt that the naval confrontation in which four South Korean sailors were killed further damaged President Kim's credibility on policy toward the North.
If this proves to be the case, perhaps the sailors of the Kursk will not have died in vain.
Some think so, but Al Qaeda blew up the USS Cole and most people regarded the killing of the sailors onboard a terrorist attack.
Back in 2007, Iranian forces captured a group of British sailors in the Persian Gulf, releasing them a few weeks later under strong pressure from the United Kingdom.
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