Later, while transiting the Pearl Bank Passage, a narrow channel lined with coral reefs, a periscope observation determined that " Triton " was off course, indicating a potentially hazardous helm error.
12.
As the tallest and densest residential building in Singapore when completed in 1976, Pearl Bank Apartments was one of Singapore's pioneers of high-rise, high-density living, and influenced urban development in Singapore and other cities in southeast Asia.
13.
"' Tom�s de Cardona "', a native of Venice and living in Seville, was a rich explorer, trader, and teacher of Spanish royal palace from the 17th century, who invested a fortune in a company to exploit the pearl banks in California.
14.
This coupled with the loss of half of their fleet during emigration, the confiscation of their properties in Budaiya and blockage from diving in Bahrain pearl banks, resulted in weakening them economically and politically, and eventually led them in 1926 to plead to ruler of Bahrain to allow them back.
15.
She sailed 21 April for surveys off Sebatik, Borneo to fill bunkers; arriving 29 April after a difficult voyage through reefs and strong currents . " Pathfinder's " submarine sentry warned of the reef at Pearl Bank, where the light was extinguished, so that the vessel hove to until daylight.
16.
In 1611 he was granted an " encomienda " from Philip III of Spain to create a company to exploit the pearl banks of California by committing to : " certain important company in the service God, if the result was positive, make the evangelization of the whole southern part and the vast kingdom of the Californias " ."
