Sentences with phrase «sailing ship carrying»

The wave also sweeps a sailing ship carrying Daphne, an English girl, up onto the island and deposits it in the rain forest, where Mau finds her.

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

Not exact matches

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.

During the same period, the combined efforts of the U.S. Coast Guard and Navy, sailing for 2,512 ship days at a cost of $ 40 million, resulted in the seizure of a mere 20 drug - carrying vessels.

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.

In the heyday of sailing ships, all war ships and many freighters carried iron cannons.

When fleets of ships carrying warriors from all over Greece set off to do battle with the great fortress city of Troy, perhaps some of them sailed from Pavlopetri, the oldest known submerged town.

In fact, many of the 60 or so cruise ships that carry an estimated 8000 people to Antarctica each year already sail under flags of convenience.

I would be in the grand Grimké house on East Bay Street in Charleston, or in the work yard where the Grimké slaves carried on behind hidden walls, or I might be on a ship sailing north, or in the attic room of an abolitionist home in Philadelphia.

Yes she entertained dreams of being a missionary, but those dreams are built on self - aggrandizing fantasies: images of her being carried on a «magnificent schooner with sails like angel wings» (a marked contrast to the slave ship that transported Ajarry to her fate); her as a courageous and heroic savior received by grateful and adoring natives «lifting her to the sky, praising her name: Ethel, Ethel» (I thought missionaries served to praise God, not Saint Ethel).

The five - masted ship, carrying 42 sails, offers the chance to experience the wonderful excitement of a true sailing ship without the hazards and uncertainty of the old days of sail.

There are opportunities to learn yoga, to attend lectures or simply to relax on the sun - warmed teak decks, gazing up at a mass of billowing sails, as the wind carries the ship to its next destination.

The company sails two ships that carry just 148 guests each and a third ship that carries 312 guests.

While your out sailing from place to place you can use your spyglass to see what ships are carrying then attack and board them once they have become disabled.

The time period is perfectly captured from the outfits, and dress of the day, to even the modes of transport such as sailing ships to the horse and carriages that carry people on land.

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.

More shipping is sailing through thawing Arctic waters, but while these northern routes might provide opportunities for tourism, mining and cutting down delivery times, the ships may also carry stowaways...

The first shipment planned for Dublin currently amounts to about 60,000 bottles, and each bottle carries a label with a stylized ship logo and the slogan, «Carried by sailing ship, a better deal for the planet»

But the trio would also like to offer the shipping world a fleet of high - tech sailing ships that can carry dozens of industrial containers while being navigated by a slim crew, and reducing container ship pollution - in other words, be economically and environmentally sustainable.

The logic, as I best understand it is as follows: Nuclear power is safe because some US navy ships carry nuclear reactors and have been sailing around for 50 years.