Elevated to critical fire weather conditions remain for portions of the Southern Plains and Central/Southern Rockies. Pacific energy continues to bring mountain snow and rain to the Pacific Northwest and Northern Rockies.
A skipper is a person who has command of a boat or sea craft or tug, more or less equivalent to captain in charge aboard ship. At sea, or upon lakes and rivers, the skipper as shipmaster or captain has command over the whole crew.
They are used only with the names of vessels in the United States Navy; as, U.S.S. âTexas,â U.S.S. âMaine.â The names of vessels in the United States, merchant marine are preceded by the letters S.S.; as, S.SL âLeviathan.â S.Sâ. is the official abbreviation for steamship.HM.S. preceding the name. of a.essel stands for His (or Her) Majestyâs Ship. The letters are used in connection only with vessels in the British service. Popularly HM.â.S. is supposed to be the abbreviation of His Majestyâs Steamer, but the letters were used in the names of British ships long before the commercial development of the steamboat.