"Allnut (Humphrey Bogart), whose coarse behavior they tolerate in a rather stiff manner. When Charlie warns them that war has broken out between Germany and Britain, the Sayers choose to stay on, only to witness the Germans burn down the mission village and herd the villagers away. When Samuel protests, he is beaten by a German soldier. After the Germans leave, Samuel becomes delirious with fever and soon dies. Charlie returns shortly afterward. He helps Rose bury her brother, and they set off in the ""African Queen"". Charlie mentions to Rose that the Germans have a gunboat, the ""Königin Luise"""
"film apparently rekindled Bogart's early love of boats. On his return to California he bought a classic mahogany Hacker-Craft runabout, which he kept until his death. The role of cantankerous skipper Charlie Allnutt won Bogart his only Academy Award in three nominations, for Best Actor in a Leading Role in 1951. Bogart considered his performance to be the best of his film career. He had vowed to friends that if he won, his speech would break the convention of thanking everyone in sight. He advised Claire Trevor, when she had been nominated for ""Key Largo"", to ""just say you did"
"Humphrey Bogart as Charlie Allnutt and Katharine Hepburn as Rose Sayer. Allnutt is changed to a Canadian in the film to explain Bogart's accent. In the film the German captain attempts to hang Rose and Charlie. They are married by the captain before the execution. The ""Königin Luise"", however, crashes into the capsized ""African Queen"" and the torpedoes detonate, destroying the ship. Charlie and Rose escape in the confusion. The African Queen (novel) The African Queen is a 1935 novel written by English author C. S. Forester. It was adapted into the 1951 film of the same name. The story"
"it in the river delta. In the book the German gunboat ""Königin Luise"" (referred to by hero Charlie Allnutt as ""Louisa"") is based on ""Kingani"", a German gunboat sunk on Lake Tanganyika and to a certain extent the events portrayed in the film are based on the dramatic naval operation carried out by the Royal Navy, but the events described in the book bear little resemblance to the true historical events. The book was subsequently made into the 1951 classic film ""The African Queen"", starring Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn. The steam-tug ""Buganda"" on Lake Victoria, which was used for"
"takes his newly arrived reinforcements out to sink the ""Königin Luise"". Having succeeded in this, he sends Rose and Allnutt to the coast to speak to the British Consul, where he advises Allnutt to enlist in the British Army. Rose and Allnutt agree that when they reach the coast they will ask the Consul to marry them. The story ends with the narrator's comment that ""Whether or not they lived happily ever after is not easily decided."" The MV ""Liemba"" was the inspiration for the German gunboat. The novel was made into a film in 1951: ""The African Queen"", starring"
"man arrives at the village: this is a Cockney named Allnutt, who is the mechanic and skipper of the ""African Queen"", a steam-powered launch, owned by a Belgian mining corporation, that plies the upper reaches of the Ulanga River. Allnutt's two-man crew has deserted him at the rumours of war and conscription. Allnutt buries Samuel Sayer and takes Rose back to the ""African Queen"", where they consider what they should do. The ""African Queen"" is well-stocked with tinned food, and carries a cargo of two hundredweight of blasting gelignite. It also holds two large tanks of oxygen and hydrogen. Rose"
"USS Charlemagne USS ""Charlemagne"" is a fictional brig of war from the ""Revolution at Sea"" novel series by James L. Nelson. A Continental Navy warship, she is known as the first Continental command of Captain Isaac Biddlecomb in James L. Nelsons ""Revolution at Sea"" series. She was originally built as a privateer but was taken into the Rhode Island State Navy to stop in her attempt to stop all smuggling in that colony. There she accompanied ""Katy"" in capturing ""Rose""s tender, ""Diana"". She was then purchased by the Continental Army for a mission to liberate gunpowder on Bermuda. On the"
"15, 1952 broadcast of Lux Radio Theater with Humphrey Bogart reprising his film role and joined by Greer Garson. This broadcast is included as a bonus CD in the Commemorative Box Set version of the Paramount DVD. On 26 March 1962 The Dick Powell Theater aired episode 27 of its first season called ""Safari"" which was based on the story with James Coburn and Glynis Johns as Charlie Allnut and Rose Sayer. A 1977 television film continued the adventures of Allnut and Sayer, with Warren Oates and Mariette Hartley in the lead roles. Though intended as the pilot for a"
"by Dick Powell, in which the writer's destroyer ""Hecate"" became the USS ""Haynes"" - in actuality USS ""Whitehurst"" - while his British captain, John Murrell, became an American played by Robert Mitchum with Curt Jürgens playing Rayner's U-boat skipper, Kapitän von Stolberg. Powell displays Rayner's book at the start of the trailer of ""The Enemy Below"". Some of the actual experiences described in the novel and later transferred to film can be read in Rayner's low-key account of his encounter between corvettes and ""U-1200"" off southern Ireland on 11 November 1944 between pages 224 and 228 of ""Escort"". In his"
"Away All Boats Away All Boats is a 1956 American war film produced by Universal Pictures. It was directed by Joseph Pevney and produced by Howard Christie from a screenplay by Ted Sherdeman based on the 1953 novel by Kenneth M. Dodson (1907–1999), who served on the in World War II and used his experiences there as a guide for his novel. He was encouraged in his writing by Carl Sandburg, who had read some of Dodson’s letters, written in the Pacific. The book (and film) is about the crew of the ""Belinda"" (APA-22), an amphibious attack transport. The book"
"accomplished, she raided the British coast and succeeded in taking HMS ""Swan"" and HMS ""Hector"". She later returned to Philadelphia in 1777. She was finally sunk by HMS ""Merlin"" in the fall of 1777 off New Jersey. USS Charlemagne USS ""Charlemagne"" is a fictional brig of war from the ""Revolution at Sea"" novel series by James L. Nelson. A Continental Navy warship, she is known as the first Continental command of Captain Isaac Biddlecomb in James L. Nelsons ""Revolution at Sea"" series. She was originally built as a privateer but was taken into the Rhode Island State Navy to stop"
"""Thrush"", is sited right next to at Spithead. Captain Austen commanded HMS ""Cleopatra"" during her cruise in North American waters to hunt French ships from September 1810 to June 1811. If the novel refers to the ship in its historical context, this would date the main events of the novel as 1810–1811. William's tales of his life as a midshipman recounted to the Bertrams would have indicated to early readers that he had sailed with Nelson to the Caribbean. Lady Bertram requests two shawls if he goes to the East Indies. William gives Fanny the gift of an amber cross."
"replenish her drinking water. Sailing soon after, ""President"" captured two British merchant ships, which helped to replenish her stores. On 10 June ""President"" captured the outward-bound Falmouth packet ""Duke of Montrose"", Captain Aaron Groub Blewett, which managed to throw her mails overboard before ""President"" could send a prize crew aboard. ""President"" made a cartel of ""Duke of Montrose"", putting all of ""President""s prisoners on board and then sending her into Falmouth under the command of an American officer. When ""Duke of Montrose"" arrived at Falmouth the British Government abrogated the cartel on the grounds that they had advised the American"
"is replaced in the book by the fictional Jack Aubrey, who repeats many of Cochrane's real-life exploits including the defence of a convoy and the recapture of one of its merchants from a privateer, and the capture of a large Spanish frigate, based on the ""Gamo"", but renamed ""Cacafuego"" for the novel. HMS Speedy (1782) HMS ""Speedy"" was a 14-gun ""Speedy""-class brig of the British Royal Navy. Built during the last years of the American War of Independence, she served with distinction during the French Revolutionary Wars. Built at Dover, Kent, ""Speedy"" spent most of the interwar years serving off"
"three ""Hornblower"" novels adapted into the 1951 British-American film ""Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N."". In June 1808, Hornblower is in command of the 36-gun frigate HMS ""Lydia"", with orders to sail to the Pacific coast of Nicaragua (near modern Choluteca, Choluteca) and supply a local landowner, Don Julian Alvarado (""descendant"" of Pedro de Alvarado by a fictional marriage to a daughter of Moctezuma), with muskets and powder. Don Julian is ready to revolt against the Spanish (at this point allied with Napoleon). Upon meeting Don Julian, however, Hornblower discovers he is an insane megalomaniac calling himself ""El Supremo"" (""the Almighty"") who"
"The Cruiser The Cruiser is a novel of war at sea by Warren Tute. It follows the story of HMS ""Antigone"", a fictional British of the Second World War named after the mythical Greek character Antigone. The novel paints a realistic picture of life on a cruiser in the late 1930s and early war years: the principal character is the ship herself, with many members of her crew (from the captain to the ""three fat men of the sea"") as supporting actors. The author had served on , a real ""Leander""-class cruiser, during the 1930s. Published in 1955, ""The Cruiser"""
"Ship Columbia, portraying the ""Black Pearl"" from the ""Pirates of the Caribbean"" films. Jack Sparrow, Elizabeth Swann, and other pirates participate in a stunt sequence. The scene ends with fountains that look like explosions and a cannon fired from the Sailing Ship Columbia. As the scene concludes, Mickey's sorcerer hat is painted on the mist screen and the hat turns to clouds as Aladdin and Jasmine are on a physical magic carpet flying through the clouds while a rendition of A Whole New World plays. Then the carpet fades away and three small barges arrive carrying Belle and the Beast,"
"1815. The fictional HMS ""Surprise"" was a sixth rate ship. It was the frigate captained by Jack Aubrey and was based on the actual historical frigate, formerly the French ""Unité"", which was captured and renamed by the Royal Navy in 1796. The Surprise plays a prominent role in many of Patrick O'Brian's popular novels, collectively known as the Aubrey–Maturin series, and was portrayed in the 2003 film """". In the novel ""Mason and Dixon"" by Thomas Pynchon the title characters set sail for Sumatra in 1761 to view the Venus transit in the sixth-rate ship ""Seahorse"". The novel ""The Watering"
"episode of the western series ""Dead Man's Gun"" (1997), as well as portraying art smuggler August March in an episode of the original ""Hawaii Five-O"" (1975) and reprised the role in the ""Hawaii Five-0"" (2012) remake. He also appeared as a veteran streetwise officer in an episode of the 1973 version of ""Police Story"". Asner was acclaimed for his role in the ABC miniseries ""Roots"", as Captain Davies, the morally conflicted captain of the ""Lord Ligonier"", the slave ship that brought Kunta Kinte to America. The role earned Asner an Emmy Award, as did the similarly dark role of Axel"
"schooners. It is the last Hornblower novel chronologically, although at least one short story (The Last Encounter) is set after the events in this novel. Like some other Hornblower novels, Forester wrote it in the form of several novellas that can be read independently. Hornblower raises his flag in the schooner HMS ""Crab"" and pays a courtesy call at New Orleans. There, he learns of a plot by Napoleon's most loyal followers to liberate him from his exile on the isolated island of St Helena. Hornblower intercepts their ship, the ""Daring"", but is powerless to stop them by force; with"
"The Last Ship (novel) The Last Ship is a 1988 post-apocalyptic fiction novel written by William Brinkley. A television series loosely based on the novel premiered on June 22, 2014, on TNT. After the success of ""Sex, Lies, and Videotape"", Steven Soderbergh had planned on making an adaptation of the book as his next film; he would abandon the project after several unsatisfactory screenplay drafts. ""The Last Ship"" tells the story of a United States Navy guided missile destroyer, the fictional USS ""Nathan James"" (DDG-80), on patrol in the Barents Sea during a brief, full-scale nuclear war between the United"
"cruises or appear in the same battles as they did in history. In his first memorable success, he uses the smaller HM Sloop Sophie to take a larger Spanish vessel. The battle action is based on Cochrane's similar feat as captain of the HM Sloop ""Speedy"" in 1800. Aubrey earned the silver Nile medal and wore it on his dress uniform always (mentioned in nearly every novel when the dress uniform is donned). He earned it as a lieutenant in an action before the series began, in the 1798 Battle of the Nile. His portrait was painted to hang at"
"the Allies are still on the defensive in the Pacific. The movie was adapted by John Huston and John Lee Mahin from the novel and directed by Huston. Deborah Kerr was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role. Robert Mitchum played Allison. Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (novel) Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison is a 1952 novel by Charles Shaw. It tells the story of Marine Corporal Allison shipwrecked on an island in the Pacific during World War II. The only inhabitant is a nun, Sister Angela. It was made into a 1957 film of the same"
"Hewitt. The novel concludes with Hewitt in charge and the ship finding many planets to inhabit. <br> Rogue Ship Rogue Ship is a 1965 science fiction novel by Canadian-American writer A. E. van Vogt, adapted from three short stories to form a novel. The three short stories used were: Using Van Vogt's own terminology when creating a novel from 3 previous short stories, he named it a fixup. Centaurus is the destination of the space ship ""The Hope of Man"". It has been traveling through space for almost twenty years, and still has nine years of flight remaining. For many"
"destination); he does not realise his mistake until too late, and though he and his men open fire, the launch receives only minor hits. Below the town, the ""African Queen"" spends several days shooting the rapids; Allnutt is exhilarated, and he and Rose are reconciled and become lovers. Rose, embarrassed, admits that she does not know Allnutt's first name; he tells her it is Charlie. On the third day the launch strikes on rocks while passing another rapid; she loses way and does not respond well to the tiller, so they are forced to anchor in the lee of a"
"each other towards the East India Company Fleet and destroy the ""Endeavor"", killing Lord Cutler Beckett, and forcing the massive armada to flee, as they no longer have somebody to lead them. Afterwards, Jack loses his ship and crew yet again to Barbossa, with the exception of Gibbs who ends up staying behind in Tortuga. Yet the crew seems unsettled about leaving Jack behind. At some point after departure from Tortuga, the ""Black Pearl"" was attacked by the ""Queen Anne's Revenge"", a ship captained by the infamous Blackbeard. Using the powers of Triton's Sword (able to control any ship and"
"Storm Rising"". She appeared in the 1990 movie ""The Hunt for Red October"" (although her appearance in the film was anachronistic, since she was commissioned about a year after the events in the film). In some scenes, ""Reuben James"" was portrayed in the film by another ""Oliver Hazard Perry"" frigate — (now ORP ""Generał Tadeusz Kościuszko""). The ship was later featured prominently in the 2010 novel by Don Brown entitled ""Malacca Conspiracy"". USS Reuben James (FFG-57) USS ""Reuben James"" (FFG-57), an ""Oliver Hazard Perry""-class guided missile frigate, was the third ship of the U.S. Navy named for Reuben James, a"
"a major restoration, the new owner plans to use it for charters and sight seeing tours. It is equipped with an old life preserver with ""S. S. ""Minnow"""" on it, as well as other show items. S. S. Minnow The S. S. ""Minnow"" is a fictional charter boat on the hit 1960s television sitcom ""Gilligan's Island"". The ship ran aground on the shore of ""an uncharted desert isle"" (in the south Pacific Ocean), setting the stage for this popular situation comedy. The crew of two were the skipper Jonas Grumby and his first mate Gilligan, and the five passengers were"
"Two, and later HMS ""King Alfred""; he served as an officer in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, later commanding Landing Craft (Flak) 16 in the Mediterranean. During his service, he achieved the rank of Lieutenant-Commander and was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross. Returning to acting after the war, he both narrated and had a small on-screen role in ""Scrooge"" (1951), and portrayed the captain of the ship the Katharine Hepburn and Humphrey Bogart characters Rose and Charlie set out to destroy, who they persuade to legally marry them just before they are to be executed, in ""The African Queen"" (1951)."
"could turn the ""African Queen"" itself into a sort of large torpedo. Allnutt is inclined to laugh off the idea, but he gives in to Rose's greater strength of will and the two of them set off down the Ulanga, Rose steering and Allnutt maintaining the launch's ancient, balky, wood-burning steam engine. The descent to the lake poses three main problems: passing the German-held town of Shona; passing the heavy rapids and cataracts; and getting through the river delta. After many days on the river, they come close to Shona, and Allnutt's nerve fails; he refuses to take the launch"
"Lauffnauer, a U-boat officer during the war, to pull a daring million-dollar heist on the British ocean liner ""Queen Mary,"" which he and the others plan to rob on the high seas while the liner is making a transatlantic crossing. Brittain gets the submarine in working order with the assistance of his own partner, Linc, and a new man, Moreno, a war hero and expert with engines. Disguised as officers from a British vessel on a top-secret mission, Brittain, Rossiter and Lauffnauer board the ""Queen Mary"", where they seize the bullion in the cargo hold. The captain complies after the"
"book was based on his experiences on the ship which he renamed the ""Belinda"" in the novel. In 1956 the book was made into a movie by Universal Pictures using the same title starring Jeff Chandler, George Nader and a young Richard Boone. ""Pierce"" was transferred for commercial service on 24 October 1947 to United States Lines, which renamed her ""American Planter"". On 13 June 1965, ""American Planter"" was returned to the Maritime Administration and laid up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet, James River, Lee Hall, Virginia. On 26 August 1965, she was chartered to States Marine for MSTS"
"its own time, it has since been praised as a ""vanguard anti-war film"". Both Garner and Andrews have considered the film their personal favorite of those in which they acted. Lieutenant Commander Charlie Madison (James Garner), United States Naval Reserve, is a cynical and highly efficient adjutant to Rear Admiral William Jessup (Melvyn Douglas) in London in 1944. Madison's job as a dog robber is to keep his boss and other high-ranking officers supplied with luxury goods and amiable Englishwomen. He falls in love with a driver from the motor pool, Emily Barham (Julie Andrews), who has lost her husband,"