Sentences with phrase «cargo sailing ship»

Steam power and diesel engines relegated cargo sailing ships to the history books, since motorized ships are a lot faster, cheaper and more reliable.

Not exact matches

Today, a large crew is necessary to sail cargo ships to their long distance destinations.

Their voyage carried them by Cos and Rhodes and into the Lycian port of Patara, where they changed ships, sailed within sight of Cyprus, and landed at Tyre, where the ship unloaded its cargo.

Founded in 1882, Matson began with a single sailing ship carrying cargo between San Francisco and Hawaii, a route that continues to constitute Matson's core business today.

In typical Society style, the Exotic Cargo tasting notes read: «A wooden ship is sailing through the tropics with an exotic cargo of spices, scented flowers, medjool dates and mangoes... close your eyes and drift away on this sherry - soaked cruise into paradise.»

SkySails Long before Malcolm McLean's first cargo ship took to the open waters, merchant traders were unfurling their sails and letting the wind sweep them across the oceans.

«CARGO CULT» ANTHROPOLOGY: «In the central highlands of New Guinea the sudden transition from the society of the stone ax to the society of sailing ships (and now of airplanes) has not been easy to make.

Based on the true story of the 2009 hijacking of an American - flagged cargo ship by Somali pirates and the remarkable bravery of Captain Richard Phillips (Hanks) in deterring their efforts, the movie begins with the MV Maersk Alabama setting sail on a routine trip around the Horn of Africa.

He says North Korea sails cargo ships off the coast of California with intercontinental ballistic missiles hidden below deck and that China is stockpiling weapons in Mexico.

Sailing on a cargo ship is one of the few places left in the world where you can truly isolate yourself and that holds a certain romance for many passengers.

On these ships, the crew's priority is transporting cargo and ensuring smooth sailing, not entertaining passengers.

Crooked Island once served as a major transfer point for cargo ships sailing between Europe and the Americas.

Far below is an ongoing parade of sail boats, Ocean liners and cargo ships coming and arriving into the busy port of Oakland.

A beautiful Indonesian liveaboard sailing ship with a pronounced bow, belying the hull's original cargo purpose.

Twenty - Three Days at Sea grants selected emerging visual artists passage aboard cargo ships sailing from Vancouver, Canada to Shanghai.

Burden intended that these vessels, carrying a small cargo of tea, sail together from Charleston, South Carolina, and appear miraculously in the harbor of Plymouth, England — reversing the famous journey of the Niña, the Pinta, and the Santa María, the three ships used by Christopher Columbus on his first voyage across the Atlantic, and invoking the Boston Tea Party.

Global Fishing Watch runs this information — more than 22 million points of information per day — through machine learning classifiers to determine the type of ship (e.g., cargo, tug, sail, fishing), what kind of fishing gear (longline, purse seine, trawl) they're using and where they're fishing based on their movement patterns.

The use of sails on cargo ships is a great idea.

Here are two more examples, involving sails on cargo ships and a proposal to legalize farming of hemp, a plant that was once a big crop in the United States, was banned because the industrial variety (very different than the plants grown to smoke) still has a trace of the compounds that give marijuana its punch.

Harrison says «I just can't see how it will be economical» to replace the current system of container ships with sail - powered cargo ships.

The first commercial voyage under Sky Sail power is scheduled for 2007, on a new cargo ship to be put in service by Beluga.

Sky Sails envisions seas canvassed by fishing trawlers, cargo ships and super-yachts sporting the right kite for the occasion.

The cargo ship had left port in Florida, despite knowing the strength of a brewing storm, and sailed into what became a Category Three hurricane.

As a crew, knowing when to cut your speed and raise your sails for a turn can save your ship, your lives, and your cargo, and it's key if you want to be a good pirate in Sea of Thieves.