What ship was the person who said the catchpharse "Beam me up, Scotty" a captain of?
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Beam me up, Scotty "Beam me up, Scotty" is a catchphrase that made its way into popular culture from the science fiction television series "". It comes from the command Captain Kirk gives his chief engineer, Montgomery "Scotty" Scott, when he needs to be transported back to the Starship "Enterprise".
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James T. Kirk James Tiberius "Jim" Kirk is a fictional character in the "Star Trek" franchise. Kirk first appears in "" and has been portrayed in numerous films, books, comics, webisodes, and video games. As the captain of the starship USS "Enterprise", Kirk leads his crew as they explore "new worlds, where no man has gone before". Often, the characters of Spock and Leonard McCoy act as his logical and emotional sounding boards, respectively.
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Sig Hansen Sigurd Jonny "Sig" Hansen (born April 28, 1966) is an American captain of the fishing vessel "Northwestern". Since 2006, Hansen has been featured in all seasons of the documentary television series "Deadliest Catch", for which he also serves as technical advisor for the production.
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William Howard Allen William Howard Allen (July 8, 1790 – November 9, 1822) was a United States naval officer. He was born in Hudson, New York in 1790; appointed midshipman in 1808 and became a hero during the War of 1812 when he served aboard USS "Argus" . Later he commanded the "Alligator", which was sent to the West Indies to destroy pirates as part of the West Indies Squadron. He died while attacking three pirate vessels in 1822. A monument to his memory has been erected in Hudson, New York.
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USNS Wally Schirra (T-AKE-8) USNS "Wally Schirra" (T-AKE-8) is a "Lewis and Clark"-class dry cargo ship of the United States Navy, named in honor of Captain Wally Schirra (1923–2007), one of the Mercury Seven astronauts, who flew three times in space, on Mercury 8, Gemini 6A, and Apollo 7.
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Josey Little James Lockhart Little (1821–?) known as Josey or the captivating captain was a soldier and steeplechase rider whose most notable racing victory was on board Chandler to win the 1848 Grand National.
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Captain Grinnaway Captain Grinnaway (fl. 1718) was a pirate from Bermuda, best known for being briefly and indirectly involved with Edward Teach (or Thatch, alias Blackbeard).
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CSS Archer CSS "Archer" was originally a fishing schooner captured by the Confederate cruiser CSS "Tacony" during the American Civil War and converted into a Confederate cruiser for commerce raiding.
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Charles Boarman Charles Boarman (December 24, 1795 –September 13, 1879) was a career officer in the United States Navy. He entered the naval service shortly before the War of 1812 and served until 1876, subsequently retiring as a rear admiral. He held a number of important posts, both in peace and wartime, in the Mediterranean, West Indies and Brazil Squadrons and as commandant of the Brooklyn Navy Yard. He was also assigned to special duty during the American Civil War and a member of the U.S. Naval Board at Washington, DC.
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Nathaniel Carver Captain Nathaniel Carver (24 September 1740 – 1 May 1815) was a prosperous merchant of British America. Near the end of the American Revolutionary War, he was captured by a British naval frigate, "HMS Albemarle", commanded by Horatio Nelson, whom he later assisted in escaping a superior French force.
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HMS Porpoise (1798) HMS "Porpoise" was built as a storeship to a commercial design by John Henslow (Surveyor of the Navy), launched in 1798 and purchased by the Royal Navy. The Navy commissioned her in July 1798 under Lieutenant Walter Scott. The ship was to carry a collection of trees and plants to Australia for Sir Joseph Banks and they were tended on board by George Suttor. A "garden cabin" 6 by 12 feet was built on the quarterdeck of the ship. After several abortive attempts to reach Australia the ship was condemned as unseaworthy, and the garden was transferred to the new HMS "Porpoise" .
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Moy (ship) The Moy was a 1,697 ton, iron sailing ship with a length of 257.6 ft , breadth of 38.3 ft and depth of 23.2 ft . She was built by Russel & Company for the Nourse Line, named after the River Moy in northwest of Ireland and launched in May 1885. She was primarily used for the transportation of Indian indenture labourers to the colonies. Details of some of these voyages are as follows:
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William Henry McNeill William Henry McNeill (7 July 1803 – 4 September 1875) was best known for his 1830 expedition as the captain of the brig "Llama", which sailed from Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 12,000 miles around Cape Horn, to the Pacific Northwest on a fur trading expedition.
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Thomas W. Lawson (ship) Thomas W. Lawson was a seven-masted, steel-hulled schooner built for the Pacific trade, but used primarily to haul coal and oil along the East Coast of the United States. Named for "copper baron" Thomas W. Lawson, a Boston millionaire, stock-broker, book author, and President of the Boston Bay State Gas Co., she was launched in 1902 and holds the distinction of being the largest schooner and largest sailing vessel without an auxiliary engine ever built.
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USNS Henson (T-AGS-63) USNS "Henson" (T-AGS-63) is a "Pathfinder" class oceanographic survey ship. It is the fourth ship in the class. "Henson" is named after Matthew Henson, who accompanied Robert Peary, most famously on an expedition intended to reach the Geographic North Pole in 1909.
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Sloop A sloop (from Dutch "sloep", in turn from French "chaloupe") is a sailing boat with a single mast and a fore-and-aft rig. A sloop has only one head-sail: if a vessel has two or more head-sails, the term 'cutter' is used, and its mast may be set further aft than on a sloop.
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Charles Read (naval officer) Charles William Read (May 12, 1840 – January 25, 1890), nicknamed "Savvy", was an officer in the antebellum United States Navy and then in the Confederate Navy during the American Civil War. He was nicknamed the "Seawolf of the Confederacy" for his exploits and daring.
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MS Free Enterprise II MS "Free Enterprise" II was a cross-Channel ferry operated by Townsend Thoresen between 1965 and 1982. The ship features prominently in the comedy film "San Ferry Ann". In later life as "Moby Blu" she served Corsica and Elba.
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Rose-Noëlle Rose-Noëlle was a trimaran that capsized at 6am on June 4, 1989 in the southern Pacific Ocean off the coast of New Zealand. Four men (John Glennie, James Nalepka, Rick Hellriegel and Phil Hoffman) survived adrift on the wreckage of the ship for 119 days.
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Benjamin Morrell Benjamin Morrell (July 5, 1795 – 1838 or 1839?) was an American sea captain, explorer and trader who made a number of voyages, mainly to the Atlantic, the Southern Ocean and the Pacific Islands. In a ghost-written memoir, "A Narrative of Four Voyages", which describes his sea-going life between 1823 and 1832, Morrell included numerous claims of discovery and achievement, many of which have been disputed by geographers and historians, and in some cases have been proved false. He ended his career as a fugitive, having wrecked his ship and misappropriated parts of the salvaged cargo.
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John Shaw (naval officer) John Shaw (1773 – September 17, 1823) was a captain in the early years of the United States Navy.
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Marco Polo (1851 ship) Marco Polo was a three-masted wooden clipper ship, launched in 1851 at Saint John, New Brunswick. She was named after Venetian traveler Marco Polo. The ship carried emigrants and passengers to Australia and was the first vessel to make the trip in under six months. Later in her career, the ship was used as a cargo ship before being run aground off Cavendish, Prince Edward Island in 1883.