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	Encyclopedia: Fire ship
		Other tactics were to fire at the ships boats and other vessels in the vicinity so that the crew could not escape and therefore might decide not to ignite the ship, or to wait until the fireship had been abandoned and then tow it aside with small maneouverable vessels, such as galleys.
		Ships used as fire ships were old and worn out or inexpensive vessels.
		A fire ship was a ship that is filled with combustibles, deliberately set on fire and steered (or, if possible, allowed to drift) into an enemy fleet in order to destroy ships or create panic and make them break formation.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Fire-ship (1267 words)

	Articles - Ship
		Fire ship A vessel of any sort, set on fire and sent into an anchorage with the aim of causing consternation and destruction.
		One can measure ships in terms of overall length, length of the waterline, beam (breadth), depth (distance between the crown of the weather deck and the top of the keelson), draft (distance between the highest waterline and the bottom of the ship) and tonnage.
		Before mechanisation, merchant ships always used sail, but as long as naval warfare depended on ships closing to ram or to fight hand-to-hand, galleys dominated in marine conflicts because of their maneuverability and speed.
	www.seekj.com /articles/Ship (2286 words)

	Admiralty : 4 Firing
		Firing Example 1: A 100-gun ship of the line with a B grade crew and a gun dice profile of 609 is going to fire her nine heavy guns at a target that is 40mm away under full sail.
		A ship from a fleet whose national doctrine is to fire at an enemy's hull should consider two-thirds of the dice rolled as counting toward the Hull Target column and one-third toward the Rigging Target column, with a general bias toward the dominant type.
		A ship's guns are fired by declaring an enemy ship within that vessel's arc-of-fire as a target (see 4.2 Targeting below).
	www.wtj.com /games/beta/admiralty/rules_4_firing.htm (4867 words)

	Coast Guard investigating cruise ship fire
		Nieuw Amsterdam’s captain later reported the fire was contained in the aft section of the ship in the crew’s quarters, below the main passenger cabin deck and extinguished within 45 minutes.
		Early indications are that the ship’s emergency response actions minimized personnel injuries and damage to the vessel and the environment." The ship has been directed to anchor in Bartlett Cove until the Coast Guard team completes its safety inspections and commences the investigation into the cause of the casualty.
		The fire damage is reportedly confined to the crew cabin area.
	www.uscg.mil /d17/allnews/news00/07700.htm (235 words)

	GameSpot:Video Games PC PlayStation 2 GameCube PSP DS GBA PS2 PS3 Xbox 360 PlayStation 3
		Fire was a devastating weapon against wooden ships, and the enemies of the Byzantines could not stand up to fire ships spraying Greek fire.
		Wooden ships sealed with pitch and outfitted with flammable rigging and equipment were at great risk of fire and explosion (once gunpowder was aboard).
		Their improvement over the trireme was the fire ship, a narrow and fast warship powered by both oars and lateen sails.
	www.gamespot.com /features/aoe2_byz/page8.html (512 words)

	Ecstasy Cruise Ship Fire Reviews
		If you definitely long to research more about information related to top ecstasy cruise ship fire, then you must be enduring and invest the time necessary to arrive at the top sources to gather your news.
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	www.netreviews.info /Cruise/Queen-Elizabeth-Cruise/Ecstasy-Cruise-Ship-Fire.cfm (725 words)

	Ship on Fire
		The ship had laid idle near Vladivostok for several years and was considered to be in no condition to be re-commissioned in the Russian navy.
		The ship was tied up alongside the entertainment centre-to-be and was due to remain in that situation.
		Sources indicate that the intense fire lasted at least eight hours and that it may have taken as much as 14 hours to fully extinguish it.
	www.marinetalk.com /articles_HTML/123814N.html (256 words)

	Lost Ship Needed Fire Preventive
		He added that the captain had believed the steam system for smothering fires was adequate, but felt that additional equipment would "be an asset" to the ship.
		Several ships of the Marine Sulphur Queen class -- she was a T-2 tanker built to a World War II design -- have cracked and split.
		They said the fires appeared to be from gases, and one likened them to burning cognac around a Christmas pudding in that they flared up and then were quickly spent.
	home.pacbell.net /corwind/msqnews7.html (460 words)

	GREEK FIRE
		If you are adjacent to a ship on fire, you will catch on fire on a roll of 5-6 on 1D6.
		Ship speed is decreased equal to the percentage of rowers lost (Killed) rounding down.
		SHIP LOG Keep records of each ship for: Ship Name, Captains name Captain skills, Crew Skills Current number of Crew, Ammo Ship Size, Modified Base Rowing Speed Number & Types of Advantages Victories VICTORY Rout, capture, or sink your opponent’s fleet.
	www.angelfire.com /games2/warpspawn/GFire.html (813 words)

	CNN - NTSB investigating cruise ship fire - July 21, 1998
		MIAMI (CNN) -- Passengers left the burned cruise ship Ecstasy early Tuesday morning after the Carnival Cruise Line vessel was towed back to the Port of Miami following a dramatic fire that injured at least 60 people, most from smoke inhalation.
		Even as steam continued to rise from the ship's blackened stern and tugboats trained their hoses on it, the ship was put under tow and began to move slowly back to port.
		The fire was contained about 90 minutes after it began, having burned through the stern portion of three lower decks.
	www.cnn.com /US/9807/21/cruise.ship.fire.01 (791 words)

	Motor Ship Pontos Fire, June 16, 1970
		The attached chronological report of the events that occurred as the fire officers first boarded the Pontos until she sailed is prepared only as a guide line for our Chief Officers and as a documentation to shipping men whose ships may become involved in a similar situation.
		George Dupuy, representing the insurers of the ship and the hull; Battalion Chief F. Brown, Battalion 6, "B" Platoon; Battalion Chief H. Inlow, Battalion 16, "B" Platoon and Captain P. Pleick, Fireboat 4, "B" Platoon.
		On several occasions, the Battalion Commanders of Battalion 6 and 16, have been notified by the Port Warden of the arrival of a ship that has been reported to have fire in one or more of her holds; or a ship reporting fire in the upper spaces of the boilers.
	www.lafire.com /fire_boats/articles_harbor-incidents/19700616_article_MotorShipPontos.htm (5787 words)

	'Fire ship' blessed in Honolulu Harbor - 04-22-00
		So, when used together, the words translate literally to fire island, or as Hawaiians first described a steamship, fire ship.
		And, although they are all Honolulu Fire Department personnel, their salaries, as well as the purchase and maintenance costs of the fireboat, are paid for by the state Department of Transportation as a necessary cost for protecting its Honolulu Harbor jurisdiction.
		To accomplish her mission of extinguishing fires, Moku Ahi can pump 7,500 gallons of sea water per minute through her four monitors, or water cannon.
	holoholo.org /waterway/ww2000/ww000422.html (564 words)

	Fire on ship contained
		The ship's bridge, which caught alight, is said to have prevented the crew from notifying authorities earlier about the fire.
		Although the fire was still smouldering, there was no danger to the environment and the vessel was not in danger of sinking, she said.
		Several of the ship's containers, valued at millions of rands were destroyed in the blaze.
	www.news24.com /News24/South_Africa/News/0,,2-7-1442_1429066,00.html (226 words)

	Oak Island Treasure :: View topic - Phantom Ship of Chaleur Bay, New Brunswick
		The Fire Ship is the undisputed queen of the shadowy fleet-as superior to the average ghost ship as a passenger liner is to a smudgy tramp freighter.
		But the «Fire Ship» that cruises Bay Chaleur, between New Brunswick's north shore and Quebec's Gaspé coast, is as much a mystery as ever.
		It has also been a shapeless ball of fire, a ship's lantern, and once-in 1906-it was a burning steamer.
	forum.oakislandtreasure.co.uk /viewtopic.php?t=526 (1356 words)

	CNN.com - Passengers abandon ship after fire - Dec. 1, 2002
		All 127 passengers were evacuated from a cruise ship off the Tahitian Islands Sunday following a fire in the engine room, a spokeswoman for the cruise line's owner said.
		The passengers onboard the motor sailing yacht were on the third day of a seven-day Tahitian cruise when the fire sidelined the remainder of their trip.
		The cause of the fire has not yet been determined.
	archives.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/asiapcf/auspac/12/01/cruise.ship.fire (278 words)

	Ship Fire
		Atlantic Ocean, off Spain's Canary Islands: a fire started on board of the Finnish cruise ship "Eurosun", owned by Europe Cruise Line; the crew put out an SOS call but was able to bring the ship on its own power to the port of Las Palmas; none of the 300 people aboard were injured.
		The fire was extinguished with no resulting injuries or deaths and the damage was estimated at about US $2 million.
		Pacific Ocean, off the coast of Alaska: a fire on the San Francisco-based World Explorer Cruises' "Universe Explorer" with 732 people aboard was believed to have started in the laundry room; 5 crewmembers died of smoke inhalation and 70 people were injured.
	www.emergency-management.net /ship_fire.htm (1379 words)

	Amazon.com: Fire Ship (Star Trek Voyager: The Captains Table, Book 4): Books: Diane Carey
		In this latter regard "The Fire Ship" is the best of the bunch, reducing Janeway to this new culture's version of a deck swab (imagine cleaning a house made of bathroom tiles with a toothbrush for days on end).
		In "Fire Ship" Captain Janeway tells the story of how she was once separated from Voyager.
		Without her ship, all her quick wits and Starfleet experience may not be quite enough to save the Delta Quadrant from war.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0671014676?v=glance (2007 words)

	ship
		As planned, the ship was set afire, and the murderers pushed off in the small boats.
		As the vessel crossed the Atlantic, the prosperous Palatines, pretending to be poor, hid their gold coins and silver dishes from the eyes of the ship's sinister captain and crew.
		When the Palatines caught sight of the shore which they believed to be their future home, so excited were they that up from the hold and out from hiding places came all their belongings in preparation for landing.
	www.secstate.state.nc.us /kidspg/ship.htm (463 words)

	horatiofireship.html
		Horatio Hornblower: The Fire Ship Gene Roddenberry is said to have based much of Capt. James T. Kirk on C.S. Forester's Napoleonic War hero Horatio Hornblower.
		See also: The Duel The Fire Ship The Duchess and the Devil The Wrong War thechick@flickfilosopher.com
		A lover of reckless tactics, he seized command of the supply ship and ensured it was sunk rather than captured by the Spaniards, in the process very likely killing most of his own crew.
	www.flickfilosopher.com /flickfilos/archive/2q99/horatiofireship.html (714 words)

	Crew worked together to load, fire ship's guns
		Loading and firing procedures inside a battleship gun turret are well-defined for safety and are executed by a crew of up to 80.
		When former Navy Lt. Robert Lian of Westampton was the officer in charge of Turret No. 2 on the battleship USS New Jersey in the 1980s, the procedure began with him calling, "Light off the turret!" He stood inside the enclosed turret but outside of the three compartments where each of the guns were loaded.
		Lian pushed a brass switch at his station indicating the turret was ready to fire.
	www.southjerseynews.com /battleship/u043001b.htm (328 words)

	CANADA SHIPPING ACT - Fire Detection and Extinguishing Equipment Regulations
		Ships of Classes B, C, and J shall comply with the requirements for precautions to be taken against fire in small motor ships, set forth in Schedule VII.
		Every Class A ship shall be provided in each galley with at least one 9 L foam fire extinguisher, or one equivalent fire extinguisher as set forth in Schedule IV, for each 230 m2 of deck area or fraction thereof of such spaces.
		Every Class G ship, other than a tanker, on which a supply of electrical energy is available, shall be provided with a portable electric drilling machine to provide emergency means of access through decks, casings or bulkheads, and a supply of drills of various sizes up to at least 13 mm.
	www.tc.gc.ca /acts-regulations/GENERAL/C/csa/regulations/020/csa020/csa20.html (10620 words)

	Brewer, E. Cobham. Dictionary of Phrase & Fable. Fire-ship.
		A ship filled with combustibles to be sent against adverse vessels in order to set them on fire.
	www.bonus.com /contour/bartlettqu/http@@/www.bartleby.com/81/6478.html (58 words)

	FIFTH FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME
		It will be possible for shipyards and ship designers to use a new approach where alternative, performance-based fire safety design and arrangements are accepted in lieu of traditional prescriptive designs.
		The aim of SAFETY FIRST is to ensure that a tried and tested fire ship engineering analysis toolkit, enabling ship designers to comply with IMO's alternative design guidelines, is in place by the year 2002.
		The second part of the project is devoted to practical simulations - with fire consequence modelling, qualitative and quantitative analyses of the selected Case studies - involving therefore a higher degree of applied research.
	fseg.gre.ac.uk /fire/safety_first.html (789 words)

	BFG2000.htm
		As with any escort suffering a critical hit, escorts within the fire ship blase will be automatically destroyed as are any ordnance markers.
		Ships with torpedo tubes are armed with ordinary torpedoes.
		If the ship carrying mines suffers a critical hit to the launch bays then the ship takes an extra D3 hits due to the mines exploding unless it had run out of ordnance.; Launch Bays have been refitted to launch Orbital Mines instead.
	members.shaw.ca /st-shadow/rosters/BFG2000.htm (1035 words)

	BBC NEWS Asia-Pacific Tahiti cruise ship on fire
		According to the commission, 17 of the 90 crew members are still on board tackling the fire, which broke out in the engine room as the ship was sailing 10 nautical miles from the island of Taha'a.
		Two French navy ships and fishing vessels are also trying to put out the fire.
		Passengers have been evacuated from a luxury four-masted cruise ship off Tahiti as crew members fight a fire on board.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/asia-pacific/2532973.stm (318 words)

	The Ship on Fire—A Voice of Warning
		The fire-engine was brought out upon the deck of the burning ship; attempts were made to extinguish the fire; but the mischief was far too much in power to be driven from its stronghold.
		There is a fire of sin within you which you cannot quench; there is a fire of hell without you which no drops even of your own blood shall be able to extinguish.
		Attempts arc made to quench the fire; but when the hatches are lifted up, the wind rushes in, and the fire is fanned to a dreadful, all-devouring conflagration.
	www.spurgeon.org /sermons/0550.htm (4600 words)

	Ammunition Ship Catches Fire at Army Depot in North Carolina [Free Republic]
		Actually the fire in the engine room could be a lot more tricky situation than the weapons as it is where some of the fire pumps are located and power would be needed as well.
		The French vessel Mont Blanc was a 3000 ton ship, carrying 2,300 tons of wet and dry Pitric acid, 200 tons of TNT, 10 tons of gun cotton, and 35 tons of Benzol, all bound for the French military.
		It is the most difficult of fires to deal with and is called a class D or Delta fire.
	www.freerepublic.com /forum/a3b5131b27142.htm (2301 words)

	Fire Ship
		The plan is to load a Neo ship, which Barca will claim to have captured, with explosives and then get it close enough to the Resolute II that it will be caught in the explosion.
		The scene exits and switches to the Pirate ships Avenger and Cobra, in transit to Mars.
		She returns fire with her chain lightning weapon, taking out two of the pursuing Y-wings.
	www.stwing.upenn.edu /~pdanner/exo/eps/fireship.html (2562 words)

	Cargo ship on fire__English_Sina
		A cargo ship catches fire on the sea near Qingdao, Shandong Province, Dec. 26.
		The fire was put out after six hours, with one killed and 15 others injured.
		For investment opportunities with SINA, please click the link "Investor" below.
	english.sina.com /p/1/2004/1227/15414.html (76 words)

	Cruise Ship Fire
		Organizations marketing Cruise Ship Fire goods and services regularly submit press releases to Search Engines and these are invariably filed under the News category.
		We are so confident that your Cruise Ship Fire shopping experience will be a good one that we have built this site so that you can go straight to the prime Cruise Ship Fire retailer without wasting a lot of time checking out vast numbers of very ordinary providers.
		That will not happen here since all of our Cruise Ship Fire manufacturers stand behind their products with full money back guarantees.
	www.cruises100.info /South-America-Cruises/Cruise-Ship-Fire.cfm (387 words)

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