Sentences with phrase «british sea captain»

The song tells the tragic tale of John Franklin, the famed British sea captain and adventurer who vanished after setting out in 1845 in search of the Northwest Passage — with that vanishing triggering an astonishing burst of British and American Arctic exploration aimed at least in part at finding him and his crew.

I came to be known as a haole (pronounced HOW - lee) a term that Hawaiians have applied to white - skinned foreigners since the arrival of the British sea captain James Cook in 1778.

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The son of a ship's captain, Raffles — who actually was born at sea, off the coast of Jamaica — dreamt of a British maritime empire throughout South Asia, an «Eastern insular Empire» that would provide new markets for English cotton and woolen textiles, and a profitable supply of coffee and sugar for Europe.

«China Seas» (Tay Garnett, 1935) Another MGM all - star special, this time set on a boat plagued by piracy and romantic rivalry — with a quadrangle that embraces brash captain Clark Gable, shady - lady songbird Harlow (in an archetypal role), British flower Rosalind Russell and sneaky crook and Harlow admirer Wallace Beery.

The British Empire wants it to retain control of the seas, and Captain Barbossa (Geoffrey Rush) half - heartedly allies himself with Salazar, who has been destroying his pirate fleet, in order to defeat the ghastly sailor.

Curiously, the ship's captain is not Hook (Hedlund), but Blackbeard (Jackman), the notorious British pirate who roamed the high seas in the early 18th Century.

Manchester by the Sea's Casey Affleck, who won the best actor Critics» Choice Award on Sunday, could continue his streak after scoring a mention in the movie drama category but he will face off against British actor Andrew Garfield (Hacksaw Ridge), Denzel Washington (Fences), Joel Edgerton (Loving) and Viggo Mortensen (Captain Fantastic).