The phrase "acquiring ships" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to purchasing, obtaining, or gaining possession of ships, often in a maritime or business setting.
Example: "The company is focused on acquiring ships to expand its fleet and improve its logistics capabilities."
Alternatives: "purchasing vessels" or "obtaining ships".
It acquired ships -- the barque Peking, the fishing schooner Lettie G.
With his cousin Joseph Grinnell, he sold whale oil, acquired ships and organized packet lines to Liverpool and London.
Instead he was ordered to Britain to acquire ships for the Confederacy, where he whiled away the rest of the war.
His instructions from the Confederate secretary of the navy, Stephen Mallory, were to acquire ships able "to make extended cruises" that were "no larger than may be sufficient to combine the requisite speed and power, a battery of one or two heavy pivot guns and two or more broadside guns, being sufficient against commerce.
During his years as an entrepreneur, Hamilton would own railroad stock in trains he was legally barred from, acquire ships, and buy and sell real estate.
In the meantime, George Washington had begun to acquire ships, starting with the schooner which was paid for out of Washington's own pocket.
He sought diligently and discreetly in England to acquire ships for the purposes of his government while working within or around the framework of the neutrality laws of the host nation.
We suppose that, immediately after the occurrence of a great earthquake, stations receiving successive ship information (AIS data) along certain areas of the coast would fail to acquire ship data due to strong ground shaking, especially near the epicenter.
North German Lloyd renamed the newly acquired ship Princess Alice, though the German spelling Prinzess Alice was widely used in contemporary press coverage and, often, by the Lloyd themselves.
Guybrush reverts the wind patterns to normal— unwittingly causing the pox to spread across the sea —and departs in his newly acquired ship, the Screaming Narwhal.
