Sentence examples for by steamship from inspiring English sources
Chester was a favored summer spot of 19th-century Philadelphians who traveled by steamship.
"When the Plaza opened in 1907, the wealthy traveled by steamship.
Regular express sailings by steamship lines also offer passenger- and cargo-carrying service.
The church may have come down the river and the bay by steamship.
Many of the tens of thousands who rushed to San Francisco went by steamship.
Previously, such communications would have taken 12 days by steamship and land telegraph.
It is navigable upstream as far as Harbin by steamships of up to 1,000 tons.
Room for a Cottage Most houses are simple and modest, though on the west side of the island, a handful of Victorian homes remain from the days when this was a summer colony served by steamships sailing Narragansett Bay.
The square-rigger that stars in Rupert Julian's 1927 feature "The Yankee Clipper" commands the screen with a billowing grandeur that would soon all but disappear, as these vessels were replaced by steamships in the real world, and miniatures in the movies.
By 1880, over 1.5 million tons of goods were passing through Singapore each year, with around 80% of the cargo transported by steamships.
After 1870, it declined as the replacement of sail ships by steamships was accelerated by the low cost of coal in South America; by 1914, with the opening of the Panama Canal, the trade effectively ended.
