Local harbour master Captain Dave Duncan had no choice but to allow it, although he admitted he still didn't have the cojones to strike up a conversation with the man.
Captain Twalib Khamis, harbour master of Mombasa, Kenya's (and east Africa's) busiest port, says that avoiding pirates adds two or three days' sailing for container ships passing through the Gulf of Aden to Mombasa.
When this work was nearly completed, it was found that the old Balaclava breakwater foundations were giving way in places, and it was decided to erect an apron to strengthen the outer toe of the wall that was subjected to furious N.E. gales, with no protection as Captain Mackay the harbour master said, nearer than Spitzbergen.
Two of the lots surveyed were Avon location 14 with 5000 acre, and Avon location K with 4000 acre; location 14 was given to Captain Mark Currie, Fremantle Harbour Master, while location K was given to Stirling.
According to an Italian court document, in June 2012 Massimo Cellino sailed into Cagliari harbour, the captain of an elegant white yacht adorned with the stars and stripes of an American flag.
Shortly afterwards a French squadron forced passage into the harbour and Captain Samuel Pym ordered the four frigates of the blockade squadron to attack the ships anchored in the bay.
"But Tres isn't going to play forever and I definitely harbour ambitions to captain the club at some point.
Scarborough council said leaving the houses standing could cause a domino-effect down the steep slope above the picturesque harbour where the explorer Captain James Cook lodged and learned his seafaring skills.
Hoegh Osaka, a car carrier, was stuck for days on a sandbank off Southampton, after its captain and harbour pilot decided to ground the ship when she began listing alarmingly on leaving port.
On 22 August, just three days after Nelson sailed north, Alcmene intercepted the 6-gun dispatch vessel Légère off Alexandria harbour and forced the captain to surrender.
