The ferry ​ (a)   at 10:30.

The ship went ​ (a)   on a sandbank.

Billy lives in a ​ (a)   on the river.

The ​ (a)   gave orders to the crew.

The passengers and crew escaped from the sinking ship in ​ (a)  

Mr and Mrs Lee went for a luxury cruise on a ​ (a)   .

The ship docked in Singapore and the crew went ​ (a)   .

Kate ​ (a)   up the river in a canoe.

After they had been ​ (a)   for several days, they finally saw land.

Tom Wilson has been a sailor all his life. When he left school he joined the ​ (a)   .

He travelled to many different parts of the world on a ​ (a)   , but never fought at sea.

After ten years he left and took a job in the city. He bought a small ​ (a)   and went out on the river most weekends, but it was not enough for him.

So he went back to sea, this time on a ​ (a)   . The ship carried huge crates of goods from one port to another...

The ship carried huge crates of good from one port to another, where they were lifted off by cranes at the ​ (a)   and replaced with others.

But after several years of travelling back and forth on the same route, Tom began to get bored again. He had saved enough money to buy a bigger boat of his own, and this time he chose a ​ (a)   . He retired from work and set off to sail round the world.

I went to the (a)   to visit my uncle. who keeps his yacht there.

"Can I (a)   with you one day?" I asked.

"First you must learn a bit about the boat," he replied. "I know that the tall thing in the middle is the (a)   ," I said. "You pull a sail up it with a rope, so that the wind can blow you along. What more do I need to know?"

"Quit a lot," said my uncle, "but we will start with the say things. Sailors do not talk about the left and right sides of a boat, or the front and the back. They say port, (a)   , bow and stern. Can you remember all those?"

"Quit a lot," said my uncle, "but we will start with the say things. Sailors do not talk about the left and right sides of a boat, or the front and the back. They say port, starboard, bow and (a)   . Can you remember all those?"

"Yes," I replied, and to prove it I ran around the deck, shouting the name of each part as I reached it. "Be careful" cried my uncle. "I do not want you to fall (a)   ."