Sentences with phrase «sailing ships from»

The strongest influence over the Azores is probably from the original Portuguese settlers, colonists that brought sailing ships from the south of continental Portugal to populate the Azores islands, starting with Santa Maria in 1439.

Not exact matches

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

Frank Del Rio, president and CEO of Norwegian, cited four main reasons for revising its guidance, including «continued weak demand from our core North American consumer for European sailings at a time when half of our fleet is deployed in the region, including eight of our highest yielding ships.»

Such modifications remind me of the four - and five - masted sailing ships that were developed in the late 1800s to stave off the threat of the steamship — a little better, but a distraction from the needed reinvention.

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.

A few days before Christmas, 1606, three small ships sailed from London.

Ships had been sailing this route from at least 3000 BC.

Verily, in the creation of the heavens and the earth and in the alternation of night and day, and in the ships which sail in the sea with that which profits men, and in the water which Allah sends down from the sky and quickens therewith the earth after its death and scatters therein all kinds of beasts, and in the change of the winds, and the clouds pressed into service between the heaven and the earth — are indeed Signs for the people who understand.

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.

It must have been a considerable time after the Feast of the Atonement, say a month or so, that the ship's crew had risked the cruise from Fair Ravens to Phoenix; for after such an ordeal as they had been through, they would not have undertaken to sail again until spring of the next year.

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

Boston's seaport hosted a dozen «tall ships» — huge wooden sailing ships used for training — from around the world.

In August of 1730 a capital Spanish ship, officially called Nuestra Se √ ± ora del Carmen but commonly called La Genovésa, sailed for Spain from Cartagena with $ 3 million worth of gold and silver.

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.

At 15, Joe was roaming the docks and wharves from ship to ship, looking for boots and shoes to shine — and was smart enough to tote along a suitcaseful of shoestrings, pencils, sailing caps, buttons and thread.

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.

They save an elderly lady from a flood as a pirate ship casually sails past, and attend an out - of - control campfire attended by Father Christmas and a cowgirl, showcasing the variety of heroic deeds our fire fighters do.

That ship won't be sailing from the US anytime soon.

From a tall 1600s ship you can sail to the largest collection of steam autos, Delaware travel destinations give families a treasure chest full of attractions to visit.

«this may repel the Conservative Christian politicians from supporting Trump» - Meh, that ship sailed before he even got elected.

There is a national and international shortage of such officers and without the ability to quickly recruit ships could be prevented from sailing and some lifeline services to offshore islands could be jeopardised.

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Their sailing records consisted of nothing more than lists of ports in the order that ships would encounter them, along with annotations including estimated directions, sailing times between ports and perhaps some sketches of geographic contours visible from afar, such as headlands projecting into the sea.

The black striped mussel, for example, first made its way from the Caribbean to the Pacific by attaching to ships» hulls and sailing through the canal, built in 1915.

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.

Divers have recovered treasures such as gold jewelry, two bronze spears from oversized warrior statues and a «war dolphin» — a teardrop - shaped lead weight dropped from a ship's sails to smash the deck of hostile vessels.

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.

He sailed from Port Chalmers, New Zealand, in his ship, the «Terra Nova» November 29th, 1910.

In 1721, missionary Hans Egede sailed a ship called The Hope from Norway to Greenland, seeking Norse farmers whom Europeans hadn't heard from in 200 years in order to convert them to Protestantism.

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

The normal custom of the White Star Line ships was to sail from Southampton, England, across the English Channel to Cherbourg, France, to pick up additional passengers.

Its flagship, the Titanic, was the largest ship in the world when it took its maiden sailing from Southampton, England, on April 10, 1912.

The ships would sail to a suitable location, drop anchor and start generating electricity from wave energy.

«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.

From Chilean lore, it is named after the mythical ghost ship that sails around the small island of Chiloé, off the coast of Chile, where it collects the dead to serve as crew.

From c1000 AD, ships were recorded as having sailed in parts of the Arctic where there is a permanent ice - pack now (Thompson et al. 2000; Briffa 2000; Lamb 1972a, b; Villalba 1990, 1994).»

Among other things, I ran the Great Wall of China Marathon; worked out on a pearl boat in the Kimberley; appeared semi-naked in a music video wrapped only in cling wrap; worked on a Norwegian reality TV show filmed in Malta; trained eagles in Mongolia; donned a wig and lived like Dolly Parton in her hometown in Tennessee for a month; rode a bicycle around Taiwan; sailed on a pirate ship from Seattle towards Mexico before hitting a storm and having to be rescued by theUS Coast Guard; and helped educate young girls in Kosovo who are banned from attending school because they wear headscarves.

The floating Maritime Museum of San Diego offers a fascinating look at historic ships from around the world, including the oldest active sailing ship, the Star of India.

I'm originally from South Africa... currently working on the cruise ships sailing from Florida, I'm verry humble, honest, reliable person... looking for descent, honest Men.

From the beginning, North Sailing has been dedicated to preserving old oak ships.

Born in precisely the kind of small - town American setting so familiar from his films, David Lynch spent his childhood David Lynch news and opinion Chats with Terry Manning and Dan Vallor, Plus Jesse Cook, Ensemble Mik Nawooj, Vincent Colbert, Ships Have Sailed, Dead

Choose from a high - speed powerboat ride to a leisurely sail aboard a pirate ship or dinner cruise.

About me... Am David Rowland from Sanford, NC.I am 39 years old and a widowed, Marine Engineer, supervising some technical problems in any ship that sails on the high sea.

They try to stop him in the courts, and when that fails, the race is on from Liverpool to New York, between Shaw's steam - powered ship and Gillespie's sail - driven former ship, with Mary aboard to look out for her father and Gillespie, and the future of ocean travel in the balance.

Donkey, Shrek, and Puss in Boots set out to find the «would be» king, but just as the ship sets sail Fiona yells from the dock that she is pregnant; which only sparks nightmarish thoughts in Shrek's head.

Synopsis: In 1839, the slave ship Amistad set sail from Cuba to America.

From a gameplay standpoint, all of the mechanics are sound and solid, ships behave predictably and will obviously slow down when you're trying to sail into the wind, and your guns and swords kill enemies as long as you use them right.

In 1822, the men aboard the Essex, a whaling ship sailing from Nantucket, Massachusetts, encountered a beast unlike any they have ever seen.

The combat mechanics in Sea of Thieves are far from tight and while ship combat is fairly good, the battles do tend to devolve into the two ships sailing circles around each other until one crew gives up and goes home.