Sentences with phrase «ships plying»

It must have been a consequence of the incessant parade of container and cargo ships plying the Red Sea.

Royal Caribbean International has announced its winter 2013 - 14 Caribbean cruises which will see six of its ships plying the Caribbean on 140 cruises, 31 distinct itineraries and 20 different...

Cargo ships plying the Atlantic were regularly bringing pit dogs from both England and Ireland.

The biggest impact is expected to be on cruise ships plying the Southern Ocean.

But the coal has to get there, which means increased rail traffic, expanded port facilities and more ships plying the Salish Sea.

Huge merchant ships plied the trade routes bringing back black pepper, nutmeg, mace, cinnamon, and cloves.

It may be cheaper for a ship plying to the east coast of Australia or New Zealand to go via the North - West passage if the ice is sufficiently dispersed.

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As T. V. Philip observes, almost all of those who went out as missionaries in the earlier period were «a distinctive social class in British society... of craftsmen, small traders, shoe makers, printers, ship builders, school teachers...» William Carey, for instance, plied the trade of a cobbler to supplement his meagre earnings as a village school teacher and Baptist pastor.

At the top, there's a lighthouse, a tiny church, and a modern sculpture of a stylized albatross commemorating the hundreds of ships and thousands of lives that were lost plying the surrounding perilous waters.

As a result, the ubiquitous barges plying the river no longer need human muscle to beat the flow and can carry more than three times as much weight — from 3,000 tons per ship to 10,000 tons of coal, cars and other goods.

Although the Isle Royale boat is almost toy - sized compared with the freighters that ply the Great Lakes, Green contends the relatively simple chlorine treatment could be scaled up to the biggest boats on the lakes as an emergency line of defense that would be far stouter than the saltwater flushing — the only protection for the lakes until ballast treatment systems are required for all overseas ships, which likely won't be until 2021 at the earliest.

If gray whales do migrate to the ocean next door, they'll find that a lot has changed in the Atlantic since the species last plied its waters, including increased ship traffic and higher temperatures.

Soot spewing from increasing shipping traffic plying Arctic waters could further darken whatever snow and ice remains.

One especially promising route could be the northeast passage, a shipping lane along the north coast of Russia from the Barents to the Bering Seas, now regularly plied by Russian ships and icebreakers.

It doesn't take more than 10 minutes on Oahu or Maui to see that traffic is thick with Tacomas in much the same way Priuses ply Southern California freeways, and it helps explain why Toyota shipped us all the way here to test its latest truck.

She plied a regular route between Sydney and Auckland until she was commissioned as a hospital ship in Europe during World War One.

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.

The point where the vessel went down is known here as the graveyard of ships, for numerous vessels have been sunk there since vessels first plied the channel waters.»

Right on the waterfront facing San Diego bay, the Maritime Museum hosts many of the historic ships that have visited and plied the waters around Southern California.

As cruising becomes ever more popular, cruise companies plying both the world's oceans and its rivers are striving to create more adventurous itineraries that come with bragging rights for passengers aboard their ships.

The rivermouth, which leisure craft now ply, was once the site of a large timber mill from where the local lumber was shipped to Brisbane by paddle - steamer.

Locals and tourists make regular use of the ferry services which ply the waters every day, although another option would be to step aboard one of the famous tall ships which are moored in the historic Rocks district.

Built in 1905, the Maheno plied a regular route between Sydney and Auckland until she was commissioned as a hospital ship in Europe during World War I, also serving in the Mediterranean and the Red Sea.

Either way, the two ships that ply the waters stop midway in Cuyo.

Try the Solway Lass, a 1902 Dutch - built classic tall ship, or the Derwent Hunter, an elegant 1946 Australian - built vessel, and ply the waters of the Whitsundays dropping anchor at some of the best known treasures of Queensland like the Great Barrier Reef and TripAdvisor's 2017 Traveller's Choice Awards Best Australian Beach; Whitehaven Beach.

For art, the best two options for shipping is either with a new, triple ply cardboard box or a wooden crate.

As pointed out above, the lack of ice means that the northernmost latitudes are able to be plied by ships in the summer.

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Though lucky participants might catch a glimpse of a bottlenose dolphin or two, smokestacks, sewage pipes, and shipping containers are the main attractions on the Urban Ocean Boat Cruise, a two - and - a-half-hour voyage along a part of the Los Angeles coastline not featured on Baywatch.Organized by the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach, the trips — which start daily as of Memorial Day weekend — «ply Southern California's most compromised waters to show the environmental effects of trade, fishing, industry, and other human activities,» the Los Angeles Times reported recently.