Sentences with phrase «century sailing ship»

The wheel of an 18th - or 19th - century sailing ship is one of the treasures deep beneath the Baltic waters.

In this script a so - called predator hunted down crewmen on a 17th century sailing ship who has to fight back with inferior weaponry.

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By the early 19th century, sailing ships brought Chinese paper lanterns from the Philippines to the port of Vera Cruz in Mexico.

The moniker harkens back to the clipper ships that sailed across the oceans of Earth in the 19th century.

Sauerkraut was once made in quantity and stored in large wooden barrels on those tall old sailing ships in the 18th century.

They're about the swashbuckling adventures on sailing ships in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

A 19th - century whaling ship sets sail for the Arctic with Drax onboard, one of the most keenly drawn villains I have ever encountered, in this original tale that grips like a thriller.

A nineteenth - century whaling ship sets sail for the Arctic with a killer aboard in this dark, sharp, and highly original tale that grips like a thriller.

It was used for centuries on Spanish and French sailing ships to keep sailor's spirits up on long voyages, and later became a favorite among Italian nobility.

For centuries, Sandakan was a centre of commerce, as traders sailed tall ships into her ports in search of exotic and expensive commodities from deep in the jungles of Borneo.

The magnificent Royal Clipper is the world's largest fully - rigged five - mast sailing ship to have been built since the beginning of this century.

These two - masted sailing ships were used by the skilled Bugis seafarers who, for centuries, plied the waters off the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, trading in spices, gold and sandalwood.

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Inspired by the tall ship Preussen, the Royal Clipper has the proud distinction of being the largest and only five - masted full - rigged sailing ship built since her predecessor was launched at the beginning of the last century.

In the 9th century, an Arabian trading ship, or dhow, sailed out from the Middle East to China laden with expensive spices and incense.

In previous centuries, sailing ships carried conquistadors, colonists, migrants and slaves around Europe and the Americas.

The form of Wind Sculpture (SG) I suggests the movement of wind and natural elements rendered three - dimensionally through fabric, but also the sail of a ship, which for centuries was the only means of traversing oceans to exchange culture and ideas.

Within economics modelling, attempts to model the feedback mechanisms that occur in the real economy are also really difficult — we know, for example, that investment in new technologies will act as an incentive for the existing technologies it hopes to substitute to become more efficient (the sailing ship effect — i.e. in the 50 years after the introduction of the steam ship, sailing ships made more efficiency improvements than they had in the previous 3 centuries) but how to quantify something even as simple as this is not easy BUT we have learnt a few ways to give sensible (order of magnitude) figures with time lags, the learning by doing effect and phased - in substitution effects based on massive amounts of data.

Hemp has a long history in America, from the first plantings in Jamestown, where growing hemp was mandatory, to the hemp sails of 19th - century clipper ships and the hemp canvas covers of pioneer wagons, to World War II's massive «Hemp for Victory» program.

Sail went into decline in the nineteenth century and had almost disappeared as a commercial means of moving ships by the middle of the twentieth century.

The oceans affected by naval and merchant ships operating and sailing the seas back and forth should have been the hottest topic in the debate on climate change since meteorology was established as a science in the late 19th century.

In the turn of the nineteenth to twentieth centuries, when sailing ships had been able to sail through the Northwest Passage.

The U.S.S. Constitution was equipped with sixty tons of hemp rope and ship sails; the majority of all twine, rope, ship sails, rigging and nets up to the late 19th century were made from hemp.

It tells of the Russians, in the early part of 20th century, building towns along the northern sea board and ships sailing and establishing a sea trade.

Modern sailing ships can benefit from technology that didn't exist one and a half centuries ago.