Sentences with phrase «on sailing ships»

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

This plant has served not only as a food source and source of linen, but also for the creation of sails on sailing ships, bowstrings, and body armor.

In the ocean, however, fishing continued to rely on sailing ships clustered in small slivers of near - shore water.

The Quincentenary race marked the first ocean crossing for most of the crew members — certainly their first one on a sailing ship — and the voyage was filled with delightful surprises.

My dad came from Barbados to Garza on a sailing ship and once here, he was the pioneer of the sport fishing business.

My dad came from Barbados to Garza on a sailing ship and once here, he was the pioneer of the sport fishing business in the area which allowed me to go out with him on every single trip and that's where I started to sail, fish and surf at a very young age.

Not exact matches

MEUs are Marine detachments that sail around on amphibious assault ships like the Wasp and America - class.

Container ship Cosco Development, registered and sailing under the flag of Hong Kong, is seen near from Panama City on May 2, 2017.

Three Florida - based ships that were scheduled to visit San Juan this week on Eastern Caribbean sailings have been re-routed, USA Today reports.

«If you think the ship is about to sail, this is the time to get on,» said Aaron Kohli, interest rates strategist at BMO Capital Markets.

If you blow a hole above the waterline (where the ship won't take on water and possibly sink), you can patch the hole, learn from the experience, and sail on.

The white - moustachioed Cap’n Crunch, who was created to promote the sweet cereal made by the Quaker Oats Co. in 1963, starred in commercials with four children sailing on his ship.

Named for Halloween, Carbone's favorite holiday, the company scares the bejesus out of willing customers at interactive events, including the Haunted Hayride (a tractor - drawn trek through the abandoned Griffith Park Zoo) and Ghost Ship (which sails out on short horror cruises).

The reused rocket was also the first to successfully land on the Of Course I Still Love You drone ship, which was sailing across the Atlantic Ocean.

We would most likely still be sailing on wooden ships, Steamships, Trains and cars and the electric light bulb would never have been done, if were not for men like Ford, Morgan, Carnegie etc..

Thus in the Book of Jonah, when Jonah tries to sail to Tarshish to escape the call of the Lord and the ship runs into a violent storm, the crew assumes that the storm is caused by the anger of a god towards someone on board.

But I never forget they had the courage to build that ship, to sail out on the oceans, and to face a New World.

But when the ship was ready to sail, Paul and his companions were on board again.

Perhaps inevitably, the ship listed to port for a time, but she sailed on, gradually righted herself, and now allows us to look back with some clarity on where we have come.

We should put them on a ship that is setting sail for a far away land and throw them overboard during a storm.

When a ship sails on a tranquil sea, all the things outside seem to the voyagers to be moving in a pattern that is an image of their own.

The first vessel used was a ship out of Adramyttium, a port on the northwest coast near Troas, which was sailing back from the south and stopped to pick up passengers at Caesarea.

I am currently in Florida sailing on Royal Caribbean's new ship, the Harmony of the Seas, and loving every minute of it.

Holland America Line will announce a new member this January who will focus on the company's ships sailing in the Pacific Northwest.

«Our Mariner packages have a ribbon on the top like the sail on a ship.»

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.»

Actually, the word «ferry» is somewhat misleading because, although it does carry vehicles, the accommodations aboard the Admiral were rather plush — much better than the cruise ship Tropicale that we sailed on in the Caribbean.

A lot of us were hoping for Pep Guardiola or Jurgen Klopp but those ships have sailed and neither Thierry henry or Patrick Vieira are ready to take on such a massive job.

With just four goals in all competitions, he has certainly lost his way this year given his prolific record over a consistent period of time, and coupled with speculation that United will target Antoine Griezmann this summer, as noted in the report, it looks as though the ship has sailed on the possibility of Muller moving to Manchester.

«Trim ship, Ernie,» I snapped, and abandoned the tiller to trim ship also, for the boat lay on her side with the sail in the water.

Before Chichester set out on his own around - the - world voyage in Gipsy Moth IV he read everything he could find in the way of first - person accounts of sailing the old clipper - ship route from Britain to Australia, and he has assembled the extracts in a stage - by - stage narrative with his own comments holding it together.

If Brooks has to rely on Ty Lawson over Oubre, I think it's safe to say the proverbial ship will have sailed.

• CIMI Tall Ship Expeditions aboard SSV TOLE MOUR, the largest sailing school vessel on the west coast.

Exactly 499 years, seven months and 19 days after a lookout on board Christopher Columbus's Pinta spotted terra firma, Capt. Dag Frigstad, on board the Norwegian sailing ship Christian Radich, did too.

Ibra would be the undeniable dream option but that ship has sailed, Rooney ain't coming on the market and imo Mandzukic would be a sideways step.

The veterans define terms for recruits, the Wisconsin grads on the staff — offensive coordinator Joe Rudolph, defensive coordinator Jim Leonhard, tight ends coach Mickey Turner, strength coach Ross Kolodziej, etc. — serve as proof of concept, and the ship keeps sailing.

Neil - I am convinced of what you have written.There is no way at all the Agent of ANY top player would NOT ASK THE QUESTION REGARDING THE MANAGER.The whole of world football knows we are declining rapidly.The Agent is there for his client and would have no doubt demanded assurances the sinking ship that has been Wengers fault will soon be Captained by someone that will sail her into steady and calmer waters.Ivan Gazidis is no fool.He would have expected these questions and would have needed to convince him change WILL happen.Wengers demise is there for all to see.The arrogance of this man will be his own undoing.Gazidis has a tough job on his hands but by getting Aubameyang to sign was the first sign of the change that was inevitable.His Agent was obviously convinced.Now we need to trust Gazidis to implement the drastic overhaul that will be required.

So, dream on Pep, that ship has sailed.

Bill Blankenship kept the ship sailing for two years before falling off, but Philip Montgomery needed almost no time at all to get the program back on course.

Instead of sailing majestically through to the quarter finals the good ship Arsenal was out on its ear, like a dude being invited to clear off by the club doorman for unsuccessfully groping the big blond.

I'm grateful to Disney Cruise Lines for inviting us on a preview sailing of their newest ship, the Disney Fantasy, as this busy break from reality allowed us to escape from winter's doldrums and provided me the impetus to create a new Cruising section of Have Baby Will Travel.

(While we're on the subject of terminology... if it was up to me, I'd have called this whole thing Baby Self - Feeding, but that ship has sailed, my friends, and Baby - Led Weaning it is.)

We've tried to sail on cruise ships that had mini refrigerators which came in handy for storing milk and juices.

DCL's fleet comprises four beautiful ships: the first, the recently reimagined Disney Magic, originally set sail in 1998, closely followed by Disney Wonder in 1999, both with the capacity to welcome 2700 guests on board.

Many groundbreaking pediatric clinical, educational and research advances were made on the Floating Hospital ship as it sailed or docked in Boston Harbor.

It has been learnt that the PPA should have been spread over a period of 20 years and thereby reduce the burden on consumers, unlike the 10 - year deal negotiated for the KARPOWER ship, which can sail at any time, to leave Ghana into darkness.

Like revelers on a ship, the galaxies in our group will continue to collide and interact in myriad interesting ways, but we will be forever separated from the revelers on other ships sailing away from us in the vast universe.

The NEA Scout solar sail will deploy from the spacecraft using four arms — called booms — to hold the sail, much like a sail on a ship.

On the basis of the speeds Min of the Desert reached on its experimental voyage, Ward estimates that the endeavor would have taken at least four months, and probably more: a month to assemble the ships, a month to sail to Punt, a month and a half or more to sail back against the prevailing winds, and a month to disassemble the ships and prepare for the trek back across the deserOn the basis of the speeds Min of the Desert reached on its experimental voyage, Ward estimates that the endeavor would have taken at least four months, and probably more: a month to assemble the ships, a month to sail to Punt, a month and a half or more to sail back against the prevailing winds, and a month to disassemble the ships and prepare for the trek back across the deseron its experimental voyage, Ward estimates that the endeavor would have taken at least four months, and probably more: a month to assemble the ships, a month to sail to Punt, a month and a half or more to sail back against the prevailing winds, and a month to disassemble the ships and prepare for the trek back across the desert.

A Malaysian ship from Timor sailing through the region also found itself in «utter darkness» on April 11.