But on the question of viking ships and crews his statements cannot be used as evidence: his ships are merchant ships, not viking ships, and they are not Scandinavian.
Far more important than the departure of the fleet is the fact that the crews of forty ships remained in the royal service: this would mean a force of between three thousand and four thousand men.
As to thecrews of the English shipping, they were perhaps only a degree less turbulent; to maintain discipline and set an example, four runaways were condemned and hanged.
In the Philippines they could scarcely be restrained from fighting; and when, at the end of June, the fleet returned to Firando and the crewsgot ashore, they at once came to blows, and a Dutchman was killed.
Crews was educated in the public schools of Walla Walla, having been brought to the west during his early boyhood days.
Mrs. Crewsis gifted musically, being a graduate in music of St. Vincent's Academy, and she possesses notable skill in piano playing.
For ships andcrews were sometimes lost by wreck or savages or scurvy.
In April, 1906, Mr. Crews was united in marriage to Miss Mary A.
Crews removed westward to Henry county, Missouri, where he was married and resided until 1881, when he returned to North Carolina.
He is now manager of the Crews Amusement Company, operating the Liberty Theater in Walla Walla, which is the only vaudeville theater in the city.
The French were greatly in want of guns, whereas the Russians had the means of increasing their garrison to any extent; and, by sinking their ships, they added 500 to the fortifications and obtained their crews to work them.
Then again, the boats' crews of all surveying vessels are necessarily so much more exposed, that they not only the sooner wear out their ordinary clothing, but absolutely require additional comforts in that way.
We found a whaling establishment in the south-east corner,* and the houses for the boats and their crews formed quite a little village.
The guns' crews only left their guns when ordered by the commanding officer just before the ship sank.
The boats were lowered and the life rafts were placed in the water and about 15 minutes after the ship was struck all hands except the guns' crews were ordered to abandon the ship.
The officers of the submarines had rooms aboard her, which they occupied when off patrol, and the crews off duty slung their hammocks 'tween decks.
The crews were to be recruited in England, the ships were to be commanded by British naval officers on leave, and the guns were to be purchased from firms customarily supplying the British Navy.
The boys in turn detailed to act as crews of the guns used to be numbered off in regular fashion, according to the custom of the service, just as if they were grown men and working on board a ship going into action.
The crews were dressed in the same colour--like our present khaki.
Boats and crews gradually increase both in size and efficiency for a century and a half after that time.
Save at night, the crews of the hydro-aeroplanes could from a height easily locate the presence of a submarine, and by means of her bombs could destroy it with ease.
The boats' crews were swimming around their swamped boats, their officers were prisoners in the hands of the men they had hoped to capture, and the Frome, ere she could give chase, had to pick up the immersed bluejackets.
To harass naval captains with regulations that would tend to curb the natural ardour of their crews would be opposed to the best traditions of the service.
To do the crews of the tugs personal injury was evidently not the intention of the assailants.
Captains and crews deserted for the gold-mines, and now half the city in front of Montgomery Street is built over the hulks thus abandoned.
All operations were conducted on a large scale, with dozens of the most up-to-date farm machines working on the various divisions of the farms simultaneously, and huge crews of a hundred or more employed during the harvest season.
Hill ordered all Great Northern trains of the north, south, and west lines to run into Grand Forks so that the train crews could vote for Holmes.
The railroad installed two operators, a station agent and a helper; Lonetree was declared a precinct, and it is said that railroad crews as far west as Glasgow, Mont.
Here he kept a stock of goods for sale, and often hired crews of woodcutters to supply the demand for fuel for the steamboats.
Governor Mathew of the Bahama Islands reports that "in more than one instance, Bahama vessels with coloured crews have been purposely wrecked on the coast of Florida, and the crews forcibly sold.
The Prosperous they sank and the Speedy Return they burned, and in Bowen's prize they continued their depredations, the two crews being joined together.
The crews paused to observe the duel, and watched with fiercely excited eyes the flashing sabres and shifting poises of their champions.
As they now mustered nearly two hundred men, the only ones that they forced from captured crews were carpenters, calkers, and surgeons, whose services they needed greatly.
Both crews quickly found themselves struggling in the water.
Now, the three great galleys lay in the harbour at Clare Island, and as Grace O’Malley had withdrawn most of their crews they were without sufficient defenders, and might be easily taken and destroyed.
This was especially the feeling of Mr Charlton when he heard the account, and he resolved to use every exertion to capture the slavers, and to bring their crews to justice.
This has arisen in consequence of the treatment they have often received from the crews of whale-ships, and from sandal-wood traders.
However, after waiting some time longer, the boats were able to run alongside, and the crews reached her deck.
Too often the crews of whalers have come on shore, and have set a bad example to our people, who think a great deal about white men.
The men form thecrews of the numerous vessels employed in the herring fisheries which belong to the various fishing-places on the coast.
Nowhere along the shores of England are finer sea-boats or more hardycrews to be found.
I'll get crews aboard them at once and convoy those transports in, and the Commanders will be about the most disgusted men in Europe when they get here.
Mackenzie's history of the life of Commodore Perry states that at the famed battle of Lake Erie, fully ten percent of the American crews were blacks.
Scores of Negroes; men of the type of these in the Navy, would furnish the nucleus for officers and crews of separate Negro ships.
It was shown that in these cases the submarine commanders had deliberately opened fire on the crews of the vessels after they had taken to their small boats or had attempted to dispose of them in some other way.
The passengers and crews of all the vessels were picked up by American destroyers and no lives were lost.
He stood thinking whether he had better risk a shot at the owl or retrace his steps, when one of the crews uttered a cry of warning, which was immediately answered by the others, and the whole flock was out of sight in an instant.
Sometimes they hailed the crews of the other ships and begged them to take letters to their friends at home.
The crews for the most part consisted of cholos, or native peasants, whom it was difficult to shape into good seamen, though they fought gallantly when well led.
To this Lord Cochrane replied, that 'by such a transaction the squadron of Chili would be transferred to Peru by merely paying what was due to the officers and crews for services done to that state.
This proclamation had the desired effect, and the crewsof the ships were immediately completed.
This mendacity had the desired effect, and both officers and crews accepted the terms offered; so that San Martin's agents had thus tricked the Chilian squadron out of its prizes.
I hoped that the enemy had not discovered us, for it seemed as if no watch even was kept on board the vessels, and that all their crews were wrapped in sleep.
But, remember, McAllister, that crewshave sometimes risen against their captors, and retaken their vessels.
I knew that the crews of such vessels were often composed of the worst and most unscrupulous of characters, and I expected nothing very pleasant at their hands.
At length the boats' crews were piped away: it was the signal for which I had long been listening.
Notice was given that volunteers would be required for the service, and immediately the greater part of the officers and crews of the three frigates came forward.
The calm continued, but on we glided through the water, to the inexpressible astonishment of the crews of several craft we passed, who, of course, thought the Lady Stiggins must be the Flying Dutchman.
I chose that spot because, from the uncomfortable position in which I was obliged to place myself, I was not likely to go to sleep, and because I was there better able to hear when the boats' crews were called away.
Our adventurers encounter hostility in places, but on the whole their worst enemies are the weather, and also ill-intentioned crewsof vessels such as those described above.
The natives kept at a respectful distance during the time her boats crews were filling the casks with water.
First one man joined in, then another and another, until the whole of the boats' crews were singing at the top of their voices.
Instead of dashing on, as they might have done, thecrews of the boats ceased pulling: the threat had had a good effect.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "crews" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
