The phrase "a float of ships" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a group of ships that are floating together, often in a harbor or at sea.
Example: "As we approached the harbor, we were greeted by a stunning sight: a float of ships anchored peacefully in the bay."
Alternatives: "a fleet of ships" or "a group of ships".
Two more fat tomes followed: The Scar, a picaresque maritime adventure in which the city at the heart of the book is a floating community of ships lashed together by pirates; and Iron Council, a politically charged western in which a train hijacked by revolutionaries strikes out into the unknown.
Look out early in the new year for India Dark by Kirsty Murray (Templar £6.99), the tale of many orchestrated hissy fits on a floating prison: the ship carrying a troupe of Australian child performers on a tour of Indonesia and India in 1910.
A recession-induced graveyard of ships floats on the shore of Singapore.
By Avi Zenilman September 17, 2009 A recession-induced graveyard of ships floats on the shore of Singapore.
This kind of flag with multiple bands and irregular contours floated on top of ships all along the coast of North Africa; similar flags with different colors and arrangements were also used on the continent.
She will survive an eight-week trans-Atlantic trip aboard a "coffin ship" ("a floating boat of fever and loss"); lose a son in the Civil War; marry an ice merchant and, after his death, turn his business into a thriving enterprise that enables her to send her sons to college.
"I am a bit nervous," said salvage master Nick Sloane as he headed out to the wreck on Monday morning to oversee the first-ever operation to float a ship of this size, two and a half years after it sank in a disaster that left 32 people dead.
But he was most visibly impressed by a floating monument of an earlier war, the sailing ship Constitution.
Ban is known for his experiments with sustainable architecture, notably the Nomadic Museum, a floating structure consisting of 148 shipping containers and a ceiling made from a million pressed tea bags (minus the tea leaves), which docked off Pier 54 in New York City two years ago.
