Flake out: This phrase comes from when a crew would ‘flake out’ an anchor chain (lay it out flat) on the deck to check the ...

While a handful of these centuries-old sailing words remain ... which emerged during the late 18th century, derived from the Spanish verb capuzar, meaning “to sink (a ship).” ...

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NCIS: Sydney was part of CBS’s primetime schedule last fall (when, due to the writers and actors’ strikes, there wasn’t much ...

NCIS: Sydney was part of CBS’s primetime schedule last fall (when, due to the writers and actors’ strikes, there wasn’t much in terms ... is led to an 18th-century sailing ship hosting ...

The more historically minded, however, may know a little more: the First Fleet left Britain on May 13, 1787, with 11 ships carrying ... Fleet undertaking the 18th-century equivalent of finding ...

"The thick beams suggest a very large, stable, and powerful ship. Since wooden dowels were only used in shipbuilding until the end of the 18th century ... the forebody of a sailing ship that ...

Seafarers fell from masts, slipped on the deck and were injured by nautical ... 18th century. In his mid-17th medical journal written aboard the merchant vessels Peregrine and Phoenix, ship ...