Sentence examples for cargo of tea from inspiring English sources

This ship is a replica; the original Beaver, whose cargo of tea was dumped overboard in 1773, is long gone.

He sold a cargo of furs in China, where he took aboard a cargo of tea with which he returned to England (1788).

The Christie's catalog notes that clippers waited there for their cargo of tea after the crop was harvested; they loaded the ships and raced one another home either to London or America.

There's even a nod to the USSR's oppressive regime when the ship is contracted to pick up a cargo of tea for Georgian Soviets to process in "the exemplary tea factories provided for them by Stalin".

And in the wee hours of Oct. 8 — newly painted black and still sailing with civilian officers and crew — the sleek craft slipped back down the Thames into open sea, ostensibly bound for Bombay with a cargo of coal and to pick up a cargo of tea.

Limbs and low-quality hardwood waste became high-quality firewood, and every autumn he packed twenty wagons full for the Kebec market and for Paris, when he could charter available ships with the promise of a good return cargo of tea or coffee or textiles, spices or china.

Cutty Sark 2 would sail the globe as a training vessel-cum-living museum, while carrying symbolic cargoes of tea and wool like her namesake, according to Vladimir Martus, a sailor and naval architect who is spearheading the project.

Little by little hostility between the colonists and Britain heated up, eventually resulting in the Boston Tea Party (December 16 , 1773, when a group of colonists, many disguised as American Indians, boarded three ships docked in the Boston Harbor and threw their cargos of tea overboard--342 crates of tea, worth nearly $1 million in today's money.

Annapolis patriots, like those of Boston, had a "tea party," on October 19, 1774, forcing the owner of the brig Peggy Stewart to burn his ship and cargo of taxed tea.

"We were hoping they would build it, because they did a bit of work last year, and because a lot of trucks and cars have overturned on this road," said Nawab Khan, a 22-year-old truck driver from Ghazni, who was making the six-day drive from the western town of Herat to Kabul with a cargo of Indonesian tea.

She was part of the infrastructure of the first age of globalisation, when China exported commodities and imported manufactures, rather than the other way round; she would sail to China with a cargo of textiles and return carrying tea.