Coastal defence was provided by several skeppslag (literally "ship teams"), a number of farms located in a coastal district that had to furnish both ships and shipmen for service. After the birth of the Swedish Navy in 1522, the system for recruiting shipmen was changed to rely on forced conscription.
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Ten archers, with thirty shipmen, under the master, may hold the waist while ten lie aloft with stones and arbalests.
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Dated by Symeon of Durham, p. 654. A majority of the "shipmen" (Vikings) gave the impression of fleeing from the approaching Northumbrians. "The Christians, perceiving their flight and terror", attacked, but found that the Vikings "were the stronger party". Surrounded, the Northumbrians "fought upon each side with much ferocity" until both Osberht and Ælla were killed.
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A first mate who awoke was also killed in a similar fashion. The wounded men were thrown overboard to die, one of them being heard to call out after he hit the water. The entire operation took only eight minutes. The remaining Southern shipmen were caged and Tillman assumed captaincy of the Waring, which he successfully navigated back to New York Harbor, reaching it on July 21.
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Officers' Christian Fellowship started as a small Bible study group in Washington, D.C., in the World War II-era. Founded as the Officers' Christian Union in 1943, the name was changed to Officers' Christian Fellowship in 1972. One of the Bible study group's original members, General Hayes Kroner, became OCF's first president. By 1947, after a year at West Point and Annapolis, membership of the organization grew to 41 army cadets and naval mid-shipmen.
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In (King James Version) it says: :And king Solomon made a navy of ships in Eziongeber, which is beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red sea, in the land of Edom. :And Hiram sent in the navy his servants, shipmen that had knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomon. :And they came to Ophir, and fetched from thence gold, four hundred and twenty talents, and brought it to king Solomon.
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He tasks Flattery with intervening in the society which has developed on Pandora to solve this riddle of WorShip. Flattery is to help the humans to pass Ship's test or else risk the destruction of the race. Flattery assumes the name of Raja Thomas to mask his identity from the other shipmen. The surface of the planet Pandora is 80% seas, and the sea is dominated by a type of kelp which appears to be sentient.
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Dubai’s historic centre, Bur Dubai and ultimately the Dubai Textile Souk still holds a relevant share of income in Dubai’s commerce atmosphere and the original business merchants, shipmen and culture within such souks and areas have been preserved. This historic centre is a lively urban sector and active economy based on the free trade principles established in the beginning of the 20th century.Ricca, S. (2018). Urban Heritage in the Arabian Peninsula, the Experiences of Jeddah and Dubai.
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When the > pagans came upon the kingdom, the dissension was allayed by divine counsel > and the aid of the nobles. King Osbryht and Alla, having united their forces > and formed an army, came to the city of York; on their approach the > multitude of the shipmen immediately took flight. The Christians, perceiving > their flight and terror, found that they themselves were the stronger party. > They fought upon each side with much ferocity, and both kings fell.
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The festival is named after a stretch of downtown Bay City's riverfront known as Hell's Half Mile in the mid-to-late 1800s, when it was lined with saloons and brothels. At the time, Bay City was a big logging community. Loggers and shipmen would come into Bay City to spend their paychecks, gamble and get into fights on the Hell's Half Mile strip.David Nicholas, "Hell's Half Mile Fest Marks 10 Years in Bay City," WCMU-FM, September 24, 2015.
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From Juracán we derive the Spanish word huracán and eventually the English word hurricane. As the pronunciation varied across indigenous groups, many of the alternative names, as mentioned in the OED, included furacan, furican, haurachan, herycano, hurachano, hurricano, and so on. The term made an early appearance in William Shakespeare's King Lear (Act 3, Scene 2) and in Troilus and Cressida (Act 5, Scene 2), in which Shakespeare gives the following definition: > the dreadful spout Which shipmen do the hurricano call, Constringed [i.e., > compressed] in mass by the almighty sun.
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The first lighthouse was erected in 1838, at a price of £11,589. There had been a call for a light at this location for some years by master shipmen in the nearby city of Liverpool, especially after the steamer the Rothsay Castle ran aground and broke up on nearby Lavan Sands in 1831 with 130 people losing their lives. The present Lighthouse, built 1835-1838, is 29m tall and was designed by James Walker. It was his first sea-washed tower, and a prototype for his more ambitious tower on the Smalls.
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Harthacnut had been horrified by Harold's murder of Alfred, and his mother demanded vengeance. With the approval of Harold's former councillors, his body was disinterred from its place of honour at Westminster and publicly beheaded. It was disposed of in a sewer, but then retrieved and thrown in the Thames, from which London shipmen rescued it and had it buried in a churchyard. Godwin, the powerful earl of Wessex, had been complicit in the crime as he had handed over Alfred to Harold, and Queen Emma charged him in a trial before Harthacnut and members of his council.
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The most regular were the ones in honour of the birthday of King Gustav V and later of King Gustav VI Adolf. The president ("Jarl") of BV generally presided while the chairman of the Anglo-Swedish Society and his wife received the guests. In June 1951, Vice-Admiral Earl Mountbatten of Burma and Countess Mountbatten attended a ball at the May Fair Hotel held by the Anglo-Swedish Society and the BV Society in honour of the officers and mid-shipmen of the Swedish Home Fleet then visiting the UK. In March 1953, the Society held a reception in honour of Dag Hammarskiöld, Secretary-General of the United Nations. In 1954 and 2004, the Society held balls at the Dorchester Hotel to celebrate the Treaty of Friendship between England and Sweden, probably the oldest trade treaty in Britain's history.
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E. Frankot, "Of Laws of Ships and Shipmen": Medieval Maritime Law and its Practice in Urban Northern Europe (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012), . In 1508 James IV moved the Staple to the small port of Veere in the Province of Zealand, where it remained until the late seventeenth century.A. M. Godfrey, Civil Justice in Renaissance Scotland: The Origins of a Central Court (Brill, 2009), , p. 188. James III (1460–88), whose reign saw a major debasement of the coinage Wool and hides were the major exports in the late Middle Ages. From 1327 to 1332, the earliest period for which figures survive, the annual average was 5,700 sacks of wool and 36,100 leather hides. The disruption of the Wars of Independence, which not only limited trade but damaged much of the valuable agricultural land of the Borders and Lowlands, meant that this fell in the period 1341–42 to 1342–43 to 2,450 sacks of wool and 17,900 hides. The trade recovered to reach a peak in the 1370s, with an annual average of 7,360 sacks, but the international recession from the 1380s saw a reduction to an annual average of 3,100 sacks.K. Jillings, Scotland's Black Death: The Foul Death of the English (Stroud: Tempus, 2006), , pp. 69–73.
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