Mariner Sentence Examples

One evening, at Watchett on the British Channel, The Ancient Mariner first took shape.

Most depended upon survey using the mariner's compass.

Born in 1964, my father was a master mariner in the Greek merchant navy.

Mariner of the Seas and Vision of the Seas both embark upon this exciting seven night cruise.

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John Walker, to whose initiative the charts published by the admiralty are indebted for the perspicuous, firm and yet artistic execution, which facilitate their use by the mariner, was also the author of the maps published by the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (1829-1840).

Mariner Of The Seas, Freedom Of The Seas, Liberty Of The Seas, and Voyager of the Seas all embark upon the seven night western Caribbean cruise.

It's important to note that the Martin Mariner plane was nicknamed "the flying gas tank" and "the flying bomb".

Four years after this incident, the navy discontinued the production of the Martin Mariner.

The mariner's astrolabe was superseded by John Hadley's quadrant of 1731.

This American league team is also known as the M's and the team's mascot is Mariner Moose.

This great event was preceded by the general Portu- utilization in Europe of the polarity of the magnetic guese ex- needle in the construction of the mariner's compass.

The application of this property to the construction of the mariner's compass is obvious, and it is in connexion with navigation that the first references to it occur '(see' Compass).

In 1763 he published the British Mariner's Guide, which includes the suggestion that in order to facilitate the finding of longitude at sea lunar distances should be calculated beforehand for each year and published in a form accessible to navigators.

It is also more particularly applied to a mathematical instrument ("pair of compasses") for measuring or for describing a circle, and to the mariner's compass.

On the other hand, it has been contended that a knowledge of the mariner's compass was communicated by them directly or indirectly to the early Arabs, and through the latter was introduced into Europe.

Yule (Book of Marco Polo) " Respecting the mariner's compass and gunpowder, I shall say nothing, as no one now, I believe, imagines Marco to have had anything to do with their introduction."

These are, briefly speaking, the decay of those great fabrics, church and empire, which ruled the middle ages both as ideas and as realities; the development of nationalities and languages; the enfeeblement of the feudal system throughout Europe; the invention and application of paper, the mariner's compass, gunpowder, and printing; the exploration of continents beyond the ocean; and the substitution of the Copernican for the Ptolemaic system of astronomy.

He copied the account of the storm in the second voyage almost literally from Sturmy's Compleat Mariner.

The early explorers of the great Southern Sea cheered themselves with the companionship of the albatross in its dreary solitudes; and the evil hap of him who shot with his cross-bow the bird of good omen is familiar to readers of Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner.

It was in 1873 that he undertook to write a series of articles for Good Words on the mariner's compass.

For navigational purposes a more basic and sturdy version was needed, and this became known as the mariner's astrolabe.

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We met an old man cycling along in the guise of the ancient mariner.

Mariner, Dave unicycle manufacturer since 1969, made the first production unicycle with a splined axle.

A reanalysis of the Mariner data provides some preliminary evidence of recent volcanism on Mercury.

Thereafter there occur vague references to Chryse in the Periplus of the Erythrean Sea, &c., but the earliest trace of anything resembling first-hand knowledge concerning the peninsula of Indo-China and Malaya is revealed in the writings of Ptolemy, whose views were mainly derived from those of his predecessor Marinus of Tyre, who in his turn drew his deductions from information supplied to him by the mariner Alexander who, there is every reason to think, had himself voyaged to the Malay Peninsula and beyond.

It is no doubt conceivable - as Sprenger supposes - that Mahomet might have returned at intervals to his earlier mariner; but since this group possesses a remarkable similarity of style, and since the gradual formation of a different style is on the whole an unmistakable fact, the assumption has little probability; and we shall therefore abide by the opinion that these form a distinct group.

E. P. Barrus is a U.K. supplier of the Mariner range of electric trolling motors.

Mariner, Dave Unicycle manufacturer since 1969, made the first production unicycle with a splined axle.

Alice and David, the season's two finalists, were surprised with new Mercury Mariner SUVs to congratulate them on their accomplishments.

Cruises from Galveston last between four and 15 nights, though that is subject to change in November of 2011 when Royal Caribbean's Mariner of the Seas debuts at the port.

Mariner Scouts, a program for older girls who were interested in sailing, was introduced in 1934.

The Mariner name is derived from the fact that the city of Seattle is marine based.

The mariner's compass, with which this article is concerned, is an instrument by means of which the directive force of that great magnet, the Earth, upon a freely-suspended needle, is utilized for a purpose essential to navigation.

The mariner's compass during the early part of the 19th century was still a very imperfect instrument, although numerous inventors had tried to improve it.

A year later he became the first civilian mariner to pass the Royal Navy Staff Course at Greenwich.

Kahlua, rum, and grand mariner are popular choices.

Upon one of these is based the principle of the mariner's compass, which is said to have been known to the Chinese as early as I ioo B.C., though it was not introduced into Europe until more than 2000 years later; a magnet supported so that its axis is free to turn in a horizontal plane will come to rest with its poles pointing approximately north and south.

Many species attain a large size and by their brilliant coloration are very conspicuous objects to the mariner or traveller.

From this sprang the Lyrical Ballads, to which Coleridge contributed The Ancient Mariner, the Nightingale and two scenes from Osorio, and after much cogitation the book was published in 1798 at Bristol by Cottle, to whose reminiscences, often indulging too much in detail, we owe the account of this remarkable time.

At this time American whalers frequented the neighbouring waters and, in the same year, an American named Lambert " late of Salem, mariner and citizen thereof " and a man named Williams made Tristan their home.

She was the daughter of Captain Cox, of Yarmouth, master mariner in the herring fishery, who died young; whereupon his widow maintained herself as landlady of the King's Head Inn at Croydon.

It was at this very period - the close of the 15th and commencement of the 16th century - that the genius and daring of a Genoese mariner, Christopher Columbus, gave to Spain that new world, which might have become the possession of his native state, had Genoa been able to supply him with the ships and seamen which he so earnestly entreated her to furnish.

The astrolabe quadrant or cross-staff enabled the mariner to determine"his latitude with a certain amount of accuracy, but for his longitude 1 See fig.

Christabel and the Ancient Mariner have so completely taken possession of the highest place, that it is needless to do more than allude to them.

The early exploration of the western coast of North America grew out of the search for a supposed passage, sometimes called the " Strait of Anian " between the Pacific and the Atlantic. In Purchas his Pilgrimmes (1625) was published the story of Juan de Fuca, a Greek mariner whose real name was Apostolos Valerianos, who claimed to have discovered the passage and to have sailed in it more than twenty days.

Hence, however carefully a compass may be placed and subsequently compensated, the mariner has no safety without constantly observing the bearings of the sun, stars or distant terrestrial objects, to ascertain its deviation.