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The presence of civilians, many of whom had to be evacuated, made North Korea’s attack even more provocative than its sinking in March of the South Korean warship Cheonan, which killed 46 sailors.
The USS Donald Cook is the first of four US Navy destroyers that, with around 1,200 sailors and personnel, will play a central role in NATO’s missile-defense capability.
The strategy represents a legally questionable expansion of extraterritorial drug enforcement, as well as a shocking abuse of the rights of the arrested sailors.
And with foreign ships and crews entering US ports every day, it makes no sense to argue that commercial sailors should be American for national-security reasons.
Throughout the book, he milks the episode for all its humor, recounting stories of ignorant sailors literally swallowing a fortune by mistaking tulip bulbs for onions.
A vigorous debate erupted in the US last November after the Russian coast guard illegally seized three small Ukrainian vessels with 24 sailors in international waters near the Kerch Strait, which connects the Black Sea to the Sea of Azov.
The boats were traveling from one Ukrainian port to another, and the 24 sailors remain in Moscow’s Lefortovo Prison, once run by the KGB.
Captain Anderson called an immediate halt, and one of his sailors dived down to assess the damage.
One of the sailors led me to the afterdeck, where I stood in the presence of a smart-looking officer who extended his hand to me.
As often as the sun swept over its daily arc, the masts were populated with sailors whose feet itched and couldn't hold still on the planking of the deck below!
Many of our sailors swore that the monster couldn't negotiate this passageway simply because "he's too big for it!"
Open your eyes!" repeated the sailors of the Abraham Lincoln.
The cowls over the companionways would vomit a torrent of sailors and officers.
His sailors couldn't hide their discontent, and their work suffered because of it.
There's the thing in question, abreast of us to leeward!"CHAPTER 6At Full SteamAT THIS SHOUT the entire crew rushed toward the harpooner-- commander, officers, mates, sailors, cabin boys, down to engineers leaving their machinery and stokers neglecting their furnaces.
Reverse engines!"Sailors rushed to the helm, engineers to their machinery.
The day I expounded this theory to Captain Nemo, he answered me coldly:"The earth doesn't need new continents, but new men!"Sailors' luck led the Nautilus straight to Reao Island, one of the most unusual in this group, which was discovered in 1822 by Captain Bell aboard the Minerva.
Then we raised the Fiji Islands, where savages slaughtered sailors from the Union, as well as Captain Bureau, commander of the Darling Josephine out of Nantes, France.
"It's the heartland of the blacks who occupy all Malaysia," Mr. de Rienzi has said; and I hadn't the foggiest inkling that sailors' luck was about to bring me face to face with these daunting Andaman aborigines.
Captain Nemo led me to the Nautilus's stern and invited me into a cabin located next to the sailors' quarters.
Oars in position, five of the Nautilus's sailors were waiting for us aboard the skiff, which was moored alongside.
I didn't reply, and while staring at these suspicious waves, I began to put on my heavy aquatic clothes, helped by the longboat's sailors.
An instant later, the longboat's sailors helped us overboard one after the other, and we set foot on level sand in a meter and a half of water.
Back on board, the sailors helped divest us of our heavy copper carapaces.
The sailors went back to their sculling, and the coxswain steered the longboat toward the floating barrel.
But precisely because sailors' luck has led me into these seas on March 21, it will be easy to get our bearings if the noonday sun does appear before our eyes."
"If they don't fish for them, sailors at least sight them.
Like shipwrecked sailors, she turned despairing eyes upon the solitude of her life, seeking afar off some white sail in the mists of the horizon.
Where the thousands upon thousands of bad sailors that swarm in every ship hide themselves when they are on land is a mystery.
A good, generous prayer it was, and went into details: it pleaded for the church, and the little children of the church; for the other churches of the village; for the village itself; for the county; for the State; for the State officers; for the United States; for the churches of the United States; for Congress; for the President; for the officers of the Government; for poor sailors, tossed by stormy seas; for the oppressed millions groaning under the heel of European monarchies and Oriental despotisms; for such as have the light and the good tidings, and yet have not eyes to see nor ears to hear withal; for the heathen in the far islands of the sea; and closed with a supplication that the words he was about to speak might find grace and favor, and be as seed sown in fertile ground, yielding in time a grateful harvest of good.
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