Back in the days of fighting sail, letters of marque authorized private vessels known as privateers to attack, seize, and profit from ships designated as targets.
Tamarisk was a small sloop built in 1916 that was capable of being disguised as a merchant vessel and used as a Q-ship, designated Q11.
The four ships designated to carry animals had to have ramps and stalls built.
Beginning in 1405, the Yongle Emperor entrusted his favored eunuch commander Zheng He (1371 1433) as the admiral for a gigantic new fleet of ships designated for international tributary missions.
The immediate and pressing need for escort ships led to the deployment of American destroyers to Queenstown, Ireland; Tucker,,,,, and set out from Boston on 7 May 1917 as the second contingent of United States ships designated to operate in conjunction with British surface forces patrolling off the Irish coast.
Retired from active service in 1881, Constitution served as a receiving ship until designated a museum ship in 1907.
We sat in the brightest sun, listening to a man named Bob Reynolds, who had piloted Lancaster bombers for the Royal Air Force during the war and was now serving as one of the ship's designated experts.
In the pilot phase of JC HEM, courses were largely donated by contributing universities such that there was a need to purchase and ship the designated textbooks to the sites.
After rehabilitation at the Port of Richmond, California, (beginning in October 2011), the ship was designated to be towed to and berthed in the Port of Los Angeles.
When they reach the shuttle, Homer fails to bluff his way on board by claiming to be the famous Pianist from the film "Shine" but the armed guard recognizes Lisa as the ship's designated proofreader.
