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The name unveiling traditionally takes place at a boat christening, which involves striking your vessel—a not-prone-to-damage metal fixture, preferably—with a bottle of pre-scored Champagne.
Q Boat – Q's fishing boat, The World Is Not Enough, 1999; Queen Anne's Revenge – Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, 2011; Queen Conch – To Have and Have Not, 1944; Rachel – Moby Dick, 1956, 1998; Reaper – Dog's ship in Cutthroat Island, 1995; Red Dragon – civilian yacht, Rush Hour 2, 2001
This guideline describes Wikipedia's conventions for naming articles about ships and for referring to ships in the body of articles. See Wikipedia:Article titles for more general naming conventions. See WikiProject Ships for more guidance on writing articles about ships. Ships share names with people, places, animals and other things.
An illustration from a 1902 printing of Moby-Dick, one of the renowned American sea novels. Nautical fiction, frequently also naval fiction, sea fiction, naval adventure fiction or maritime fiction, is a genre of literature with a setting on or near the sea, that focuses on the human relationship to the sea and sea voyages and highlights nautical culture in these environments.
Map of Homeric Greece. In the debate since antiquity over the Catalogue of Ships, the core questions have concerned the extent of historical credibility of the account, whether it was composed by Homer himself, to what extent it reflects a pre-Homeric document or memorized tradition, surviving perhaps in part from Mycenaean times, or whether it is a result of post-Homeric development. [2]
Photo Name Class Built (rebuilt) Years in service Auto capacity Passenger capacity Notes Refs MV Quillayute: None: 1927: 1961-1963: 35: 600: Acquired in Black Ball purchase [8] SS Smokwa: None: 1946: 1961-1966: 46: 473: Acquired in Black Ball purchase; named Scotian when built [9] MV Jervis Queen: None: 1928: 1961-1966: 45: 600: Acquired in ...
The city of Huzhou, in Zhejiang, became a major center for book publishing and printing, so associated with the itinerant booksellers that book boat merchants were often referred to as "merchants of Huzhou" even when coming from other regions. [3] The Grand Canal was reopened under the reign of the Yongle Emperor (r.