In order to secure a fair wind for the voyage, Agamemnon sacrificed his own daughter, Iphigenia.
Its maiden voyage from Fair Isle, in the Shetland Islands, to Newcastle upon Tyne, where we are based, was tracked via a website.
Rather more challenging in this week of four world premieres was Voyage to Fair Isle, a new piano trio by Peter Maxwell Davies given its first outing by the splendid Grieg Trio at the Wigmore Hall.
The actual day, 8 September, also is the date assigned to the birth of the Virgin Mary, and a plainsong proper to that day forms the basis of Davies's piano trio A Voyage to Fair Isle, begun on his birthday in 2002.
SOS Voyager creates input voyage parameters needed by SOS Allocator, and then SOS Allocator generates the yearly gross profit based on the trade area allocated to new ships in fair competition with already existing ones.
The voyage takes just 20 minutes.
We, however, are blessed with a relatively calm voyage (calm here meaning a fair amount of rolling).
On his maiden voyage through the Iowa State Fair, some hecklers were giving him a hard time, the typical hazing for a new face on the national scene, and Perry's response was instinctive.
The story claims body after body: first that of Iphigenia, a young maiden who is sacrificed by her father, Agamemnon, to secure fair winds for the Greek Army's voyage to Troy.
To make the most of the return voyage, Ceres will head north carrying fair-trade cocoa beans and pickling jars for its producers.
