Sentences with phrase «boards a ship bound»

Instead of boarding a ship bound for the UK, he travelled to Marseille and ran a seaman's mission which became the last link of a chain of safe houses from the beaches of Dunkirk in northern France to his new home in the south.

When the prophet Jonah fled from God's instruction to go to Nineveh, he boarded a ship bound for Tarshish, in the opposite direction from Nineveh.

It comes after shocking revelations that almost 2,500 Australian sheep died from heat stress on board a ship bound for the Middle East last August, and animals being mistreated in a Qatari abattoir.

In the early 1950s, an eleven - year - old boy in Colombo boards a ship bound for England.

This is the 11th of a series I was already set to sail for Puerto Princesa: my ticket has already been paid, I already boarded the ship bound for the Palawan capital and my things were already at my assigned cot.

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Being on a giant ship 24 hours x 9 days — mostly sea bound — means that the best past time on board was to eat.

Then during the night the ships would cross to Queenstown, Ireland, where last - minute Royal Mail bags were delivered to the ships and where many of the third - class passengers — often bound for a new life in America — would board from special ferry boats.

Board the Alaska - bound Zuiderdam, a luxury cruise ship, alongside Harriet Chance.

Correa, who is Cuban, sets his novel on board the St. Louis, a ship bound for Cuba from Berlin with nearly 1,000 Jewish refugees on board.

It's near the end of WWII, and four refugees travel on foot during January to board the Wilhelm Gustloff, a ship bound for safety.