Her slum, Boston, said to be named for a red-light district once frequented by foreign sailors, erupted in celebration.
Gunmen attacked a supply tugboat off the coast of Nigeria's southern delta and kidnapped four foreign sailors, officials said Monday.
Around the world, the US navy routinely provides assistance to foreign sailors in distress, and we appreciate the timely way in which this situation was resolved".
Western boxing, as it was known, had first appeared in the nineteen-twenties, in the port cities of Shanghai and Guangzhou, where foreign sailors were pitted against local fighters.
Re "Shore Leave Is Casualty, Too: Foreign Sailors Must Stay Aboard Ships in New York" (news article, Nov. 28): You do not mention that chaplains are unable to board ships coming into the Port of New York and New Jersey at some tanker terminals.
In the pivotal role of Mother God Damn (a name, she explains, foisted on ignorant Chinese girls by foreign sailors who told them it means "I love you"), Jade Wu delivers a formidable performance.
When the Taino gathered on the shores of San Salvador Island to welcome a small party of foreign sailors on 12 October 1492, they had little idea what lay in store.
There is possible evidence of foreign sailors setting up home in the north-west Highlands after their ships foundered off the Scottish coast.
"The first, (version) and this is promoted by the Local Government Board for Scotland in its report in 1901," explains Dr Williamson "was that foreign sailors who frequented brothels in the city were passing on the disease through some kind of physical contact.
On October 21, 2014, Jeffrey Fowle, an American, was released from a North Korean prison where he was held for leaving a Bible at a club for foreign sailors.
