Sentence examples for nautical knowledge from inspiring English sources
It is not known why Golding's first novel, Circle Under the Sea, was rejected by publishers, but his biographer John Carey points to the abundance of "nautical knowledge".
(Is that a real position on a ship? As you can probably tell, my only nautical knowledge comes from Gilligan's Island).
In the 16th century, the fishermen started to work in maritime activities, as pilots or seafarers in the crew of the Portuguese ships, due to their high nautical knowledge.
3 But the other commanders, since they had gone through a severe experience the day before, and had as yet no accurate knowledge of nautical matters, p325 were cast upon the shore close by and lost many ships.
Both bumbling, ineffectual, trapped, lovable, basically well meaning, and with some surprising strengths – like the great scene when Bubbles reveals an unexpected knowledge of things nautical, and Ziggy introducing Nick to digital cameras and internet search engines.
A picture book full of arcane knowledge, it explains semaphore, the communication system of nautical flags and morse code.
While Facebook has called the contract and correspondence fake, the only people who have absolute 100%percentt knowledge as to whether the emails are legit (portrayed as seagulls in this video, presumably because of the nautical theme) are Zuckerberg and Ceglia.
A nautical impromptu [graphic].
Hence, nautical education plays an important role.
