Sentences with phrase «tubes at ships»
Few people realized that liquid incendiaries — naphtha, pitch, or quicklime — were used as far back as 875 B.C.. Later, in the seventh century A.D., a Syrian engineer named Callinicus invented a terrible cannon that pumped a fiery naphtha mix through bronze tubes at ships in battle.
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At 20 predetermined spots, workers opened fat cardboard tubes packed with male mosquitoes shipped overnight in a cooler from Kentucky — 20,000 mosquitoes in all.
After four days of coring — interrupted at one point by a blizzard — the team has 400 pounds of mud in 45 meters of tubing to ship to a Minnesota lab, where the next chapter in the mystery unfolds.
McCartney said the sub had been heavily damaged by the depth charges that sank it 76 years ago, and that two of the submarine's torpedo tubes are empty, which suggests the Tarpon had fired twice at the enemy ship.
Biological products and materials meeting specific origin, age, and sex requirements can be prepared as pooled or individual tubes aliquoted stored, and shipped at a specified temperature according to your needs.
Being only 50 metres from the waters edge, you can enjoy daily departures to Australia's Alcatraz, Saint Helena Island which was once a maximum security prison, with their popular ghost tour at night, snorkelling around the ship wrecks on Moreton Island and tubing on crystal clear waters.
To be more specific on a cruise ship day you will find at least 3,000 people going cave tubing.
2) engine (cooling) inlet (this might well be at the end of a tube feeding a heat exchanger or the water jacket as on a 3 - progressive - stage steam piston engine as on a Liberty ship) and
And while shipping containers will always be heavy, they sit lightly on the land: concrete tubes at each corner with an embedded steel plate, and the container is locked down in the same way it's secured aboard a ship.
Installed and repaired onboard ship equipment Installed all of the missile tubes and launch tubes on the first three Trident Submarines (At the time I was the youngest 1st Class outside Machinist)