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It is also often referred to by its first line, “We are often tossed and driven on the restless sea of time”, or the first line of the refrain, “By and by, when the morning comes.”⁴ Like many of his songs, Tindley composed “We’ll Understand it Better By and By” in his head, and transcribed and recorded it after, as Tindley was ...
When the world is tossing me, like a ship upon the sea, thou who rulest wind and water, stand by me. In the midst of tribulation, stand by me. In the midst of tribulation, stand by me. When the hosts of hell assail, and my strength begins to fail, thou who never lost a battle, stand by me. In the midst of faults and failures, stand by me.
Long we've tossed on the rolling main, now we're safe ashore, Jack. Don't forget yer old shipmate, faldee raldee raldee raldee rye-eye-doe! We have worked the self-same gun, quarterdeck division. Sponger I and loader you, through the whole commission. Long we've tossed on the rolling main, now we're safe ashore, Jack.
Frasier is back — and so is one of the most distinctive closing theme songs in TV history. Fans know that every episode of Frasier ends with star Kelsey Grammer singing a jazzy tune titled ...
A large ship designed for the bulk transport of oil or its products. Packet A sailing ship that carried mail, passengers and freight Paddle steamer A steam-propelled, paddle-driven vessel Panterschepen (Dutch) or Pansarskepp (Swedish) Types of ironclad, heavy gunboats designed for coastal or colonial service Penteconter
AAW An acronym for anti-aircraft warfare. aback (of a sail) Filled by the wind on the opposite side to the one normally used to move the vessel forward.On a square-rigged ship, any of the square sails can be braced round to be aback, the purpose of which may be to reduce speed (such as when a ship-of-the-line is keeping station with others), to heave to, or to assist moving the ship's head ...
As the parts of the ship are replaced, the question remains as to whether the same ship remains throughout. The Ship of Theseus, also known as Theseus's Paradox, is a paradox and a common thought experiment about whether an object is the same object after having all of its original components replaced over time, typically one after the other.
Captain Alfred Bulltop Stormalong was an American folk hero and the subject of numerous nautical-themed tall tales originating in Massachusetts.Stormalong was said to be a sailor and a giant, some 30 feet (9.1 m) tall; he was the master of a huge clipper ship known in various sources as either the Courser or the Tuscarora, a ship purportedly so tall that it had hinged masts to avoid catching ...