In contrast, very few sailors and soldiers were arrested during the riots.
A few sailors have said they got sick after falling into the bay.
Some will be replaced by "arsenal ships", semi-submersible, stealthy barges, carrying hundreds of missiles but few sailors.
HONOLULU — In the annals of the sea, there were few sailors whose luck was worse than George Pollard Jr.'s.
There was often a Royal Navy ship in the harbour, and my father's employer would ask if anyone was willing to have a few sailors over.
On this night, 17 sailors had climbed through a small circular scuttle on the mess deck and then descended, handhold by foothold, deep below the water line to a space that few sailors see.
"And there are always a few sailors around," drawn to a particular point of pride for the World War II sailor himself, the flowing fountains, granite map and larger-than-life "Lone Sailor" of Stanley Bleifeld's Navy Memorial.
A few sailors were occasionally thirsty, it appears: according to the Landmarks Commission's report, one-quarter of Vinegar Hill heads of household in 1822 were tavern proprietors, and in those days they weren't serving fancy Belgian beers.
David Miller, executive director of Audubon New York in Albany, sees the push to turn Davids Island into parkland as a milestone in a broader movement to restore and preserve the 1,320-square-mile 1,320-square-mile 1,320-square-mileat for heron, terns and more than a few saiLong Island Soundn.
— At dawn on the dock, a few sailors kiss spouses and dogs goodbye.
