Thus, one way and another, the glory of the old merchant marine departed with the Civil War.
This college was founded for the instruction ofmarine cadets, and for that reason named after S.
There are four Academies; the Neustadt Academy, the Artillery Academy, the Engineers’ Academy, and the Marine Academy.
Application for this assistance must be made to the Minister of the Marineat the matriculation of the candidate.
Because to the commercial marine is entrusted every year an immense amount of valuable property.
The navy is manned by a marine conscription, which dates back to 1683.
Because to the commercial marine every year are entrusted the lives of a large and increasing number of Her Majesty’s subjects.
The Mercantile Marine of the United Kingdom in number of vessels, their registered tonnage, and men employed, together with the value of property and number of passengers transported in them, exceeds that of any other country.
The Royal School of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering issue two grades of diplomas.
Entrance into the Marine Academy takes place at the close of the second year.
Annual reports of Canadian Department of Marine and Fisheries (Ottawa, 1868 seqq.
While marine terraces are nearly always horizontal, stream terraces slope downwards along the course of the river.
The width of the entrance to the gulf of Lepanto is subject to singular changes, which are ascribed to the formation of alluvial deposits by certain marine currents, and their removal again by others.
In many parts of Britain, Scandinavia and North America there are marine gravels, in every essential resembling those of the sea-shore, at levels considerably above high tide.
Among the marine fauna are the dolphins, familiar in the legends and sculpture of antiquity; in the clear water of the Aegean they often afford a beautiful spectacle as they play round ships; porpoises and whales are sometimes seen.
Though the area is off the beaten track, it has long been famous for bird and marine life, as well as for legends of pirates and sunken gold.
Plant and Animal Life The warm Gulf Stream waters support great reefs of coral and "forests" of marine plants, which in turn provide refuge for the myriad forms of animal life in nature's aquarium.
Some of the marine bivalves, as for instance, Tridacna gigas, can live to sixty or a hundred years.
More than fifty years ago, Dana, the American naturalist, discovered a pelagic marine creature with characters so curious that he gave to it the name Monstrilla.
The city also has a colonial museum and a laboratory ofmarine zoology.
It has a harbour (used by coasting and fishing vessels), marine workshops, oil and soap manufactures and cod-drying works.
Wood's Hole is a station of the United States Bureau of Fisheries, and a marine biological laboratory is there.
The principal streams in the Isle of Wight navigable formarine craft are the Rivers Medina and Yar, and the Creeks of Newtown and Wootton.
Having a large shipwright's yard, and a number of marine stores, wharfs, &c.
They command a beautiful marine prospect, as they stand at the head of a sloping lawn-like field, interspersed with several oaks and elms: indeed the terrace is the most conspicuous part of Ryde when viewed from the sea.
The WELL near the Marine Villa of the Right Honourable Lord Yarborough.
There are also a few good houses: the Parsonage, though rather secluded, enjoys a charming marine prospect; and Kite-hill will be known by its antique aspect and screen of lofty firs.
It is scarcely necessary to add, that the castle commands a most interesting marine prospect.
This tract was a few years back laid out for the erection of a number of elegant villa-residences, each to be surrounded with its garden and shrubbery, yet to command a delightful marine view.
Our merchant marine on the lakes secures to us a naval superiority in that quarter at the beginning of a war; and our facilities for ship-building are there equal if not superior to any possessed by the enemy.
A marine force was raised to stop smuggling; and the subtraction of coal during coaling operations was stopped by drastic legislation.
Off St Vaast lies the fortified island of Tatihow, with the laboratory of marine zoology of the Natural History Museum of Paris.
It is extensively used for marine and other cordage.
Suddenly, just as it seem he was about to slip off the marine monster's slippery back, he thought he heard a loud cry of "Help, scouts!
A voice shouted down from the bridge: "What in blazing sea serpents are you doing out here in that marine oil stove?
I know that is considered contrary to marine law, but in dealing with a maniac there is no law.
So engrossed were they with the appearance of what seemed to be some marine monster that, for a few moments, they paid no attention to the course of their boat, which was carrying them along just below the clouds.
The marine won, and carried off the prize--while the rifleman declared that he had never yet forgiven himself for being cheated out of his half, for he feels convinced that the marine had come there prepared with a ha'penny that had two tails.
I would have let her gone that way any how, if the marine had brought twenty tails with his ha'penny!
The musket-shots not having produced the desired results, harpoons were employed, but they took no hold on the soft, impalpable flesh of the marine monster.
Captain Scammon, detailed from the United States Revenue Service, to take the post of Chief of Marine in the telegraph expedition on which the writer served, made a series of soundings.
It has societies, "homes," and bethels for his benefit, and a finemarine hospital.
The bold Marinehe drained his glass, So kind: The bold Marine he drained his glass, So kind.
The inventor of the application of steam to a marine engine was William Symington who first constructed, in 1788, a vessel on Lake Delawater, Dumfrieshire.
They continued to be the authority till the passing of the Act of 1903, when the Minister of Marine and Fisheries became the authority, which he still continues to be.
His plan for a sub-marine boat was afterwards perfected.
In 1813, he obtained a patent for a sub-marine battery.
All experience demonstrates that the conditions of the existence of marine plants are the same which are essential to terrestrial plants.
We well know that marine plants cannot derive a supply of humus for their nourishment through their roots.
An enactment, authorizing the employment of the mercantile marine in the national service as part of the national navy, would be practical and reasonable.
I would secure for our private marine the amplest opportunity, that it may continue without interruption to plough every sea with its keels, and that, wherever it appears, it may find its accustomed welcome.
The Senator, with seeming triumph, asks if we can afford to declare that our whole private marine shall rot at the wharf.
Massachusetts is interested in the enlargement of the marine, national and private, and I add, also, in the present enlistment of the private marine in the national service; but this is very different from the issue of letters of marque.
He seeks to enlist the private marine of the country in the public service: I show him how it can be done.
Such a marine might justly be called the militia of the sea; but I must protest against the deceptive militia of the Senator.
He kept a boat for fishing and marine sketching; also a gig and an old cropped-eared horse, with which he made sketching excursions.
He painted a fewmarine views with rough seas and cloudy skies.
The rooms were small, and contained models of rigged ships which he used in his marine views; in his jungle-like garden he grew aquatic plants which he often copied in foregrounds.
In the Rue de Marine we saw an old structure of large dimensions with a long row of plain white marble columns in front, which, from its appearance, might be mistaken for an old warehouse.
Our drive through the beautiful residence section and suburbs on the heights this morning was charming, and the extensive landscape and marine view from the Convent of Camaldoli is unsurpassed, save by the view from Mustapha Superieur.
Jonah, if not exactly a sailor, had had his marine adventures, and in his prayer thus refers to them: "The waters compassed me about .
