10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DISTRESS ROCKET»
Discover the use of
distress rocket in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
distress rocket and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Titanic For Dummies
Monday, April 15, 12:15 a.m. The Titanic sends out her first distress call, a CQD (
meaning “All stations: distress”), that's picked up by the La Provence and the
Mount Temple. Monday, April 15, 12:45 a.m. The Titanic's first distress rocket is
fired.
Stephen J. Spignesi, 2012
2
The Other Side of the Night: The Carpathia, the Californian ...
“The rockets that are used are for the same purpose and are understood, are they
not, among mariners?” “As being distress rockets?” “Yes.” “Oh, yes; you never
mistake a distress rocket.” It is particularly difficult to credit Lord's last answer, for
it ...
Daniel Allen Butler, 2009
He wondered what had happened to his distress rocket as he waited to die. The
queen held the distress rocket in one of her deformed hands like a sceptre,
tapping it against her other hoof from time to time. The sex had not satisfied her.
4
Merchant Shipping Notices
This exemption is valid until revoked or, as respects a particular requirement to
carry red star distress rocket signals, until the provision imposing that
requirement is amended so as to require the carrying of rocket parachute flares.
Dated this 11 ...
Maritime and Coastguard Agency, Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA), 2003
5
Theory and Practice of Seamanship
The Pains Wessex Schermuly 'Para Red' is a hand-held distress rocket which
conforms to the requirements for both ship and lifeboat/raft rockets. It ejects a
parachute-suspended red flare at a height of 300 metres (980 ft) when fired
vertically ...
“Ok Bledgford, shall I fire a distress rocket before we drop down our anchor”? I
asked. “Why not, we have broken every other rule in the book, so breaking one
more rule is not going to make very much difference, besides I will have to go into
...
I had reached the wheelhouse deck when, from one of the rear ships on the port
side, I saw a distress rocket burst silently over that section of the convoy in a
white flower-like shape. A few moments later it was followed by another. Two
white ...
8
Triumphs and Tragedies: Twenty-five Aspects of the Life of a ...
“Break out the distress rocket box, third mate. If nothing else, it'll tell them we are
paying attention. About 11 pm, the carpenter fired a distress rocket and the whole
crew sent a faint but welcoming cheer a few minutes later at the sight of the ...
9
Using French Vocabulary
... rocket la fusée de signalisation signal rocket la fuséededétresse distress rocket
la fusée asphyxiante gas bomb lafuséegigogne multistage rocket la fusée à
étages multistage rocket lafusée intercontinentale intercontinental ballistic
missile la ...
10
Command Companion of Seamanship Techniques
0018 Lookouts aboard Probitas reported a distress rocket sighted and a flashing
white light was then seen 2–3 cables from the stricken vessel. This was observed
to be a survival craft and the signal was acknowledged by aldis lamp and ship's ...
6 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DISTRESS ROCKET»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
distress rocket is used in the context of the following news items.
Murder in Tai O: how police officer was gunned down in cold blood …
... an officer to Castle Peak, to break the news to the chief of police, and asked villagers to have the local pawnshop fire a distress rocket. Then ... «South China Morning Post, Apr 15»
Tragic shipwreck still remembered along Jersey shore
Hearing the ship's bells and the firing of its distress rocket, along with the screams of hundreds of passengers, Allen was on the beach within ... «USA TODAY, Nov 14»
Asbury Park: 160 years ago, a tragedy offshore
Hearing the ship's bells and the firing of its distress rocket, along with the screams of hundreds of passengers, Allen was on the beach within ... «Asbury Park Press, Nov 14»
Remembering a Titanic loss
It wasn't until 12.50am that the first white distress rocket was fired and, although the wireless operators began sending the SOS distress calls, ... «Peterborough Evening Telegraph, Apr 12»
Greenland update: Polar bears and crevasses
Vesa and Toni said their emergency equipment consists of four torches, one distress rocket, one pen flare pistol with 20 cartridges, and Baikal ... «ExplorersWeb, Apr 10»
North Korean ship fights off Somali pirates
The crew also fired distress rocket flares at the pirates, and the ship escaped "after the captain increased speed," Choong said. The captain ... «USA Today, Sep 09»
