Sentence examples for disastrous voyage from inspiring English sources

It's a disastrous voyage that ends -- like the novel -- with the boat frozen solid in an ice floe.

At its start you assume control of a locomotive after a disastrous voyage into the Blue Kingdom, otherwise known as the Land of the Dead, claims the life your captain.

Children dressed in period costume for the ceremony, which included a moment of silence in remembrance of the 1,517 people who lost their lives on the ship's disastrous voyage.

In the case of the Essex the 20-man crew lived through the attack, but in the long, disastrous voyage that followed, 12 of them died, some cannibalized by their shipmates.

Beaming as he walked hand in hand with friends, Elian Gonzalez, arguably Cuba's most famous boy, went back to school today, nine months after the disastrous voyage that landed him at the center of an international custody battle.

But it is a diary, a genuine account, day by day, of the last year in the life of Richard Madox, an Elizabethan fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, on a disastrous voyage that takes him via Sierra Leone to Brazil, where the manuscript breaks off because he dies.

The scientists of 2012 know all about the disastrous first voyage: it's been immortalised by the captain's diaries and a classic film they regularly show on movie nights in the comfortably temperature-controlled Antarctic base.

The commercial spaceflight company, which famously sold early-bird tickets for its first trips costing $250,000  per passenger, is building its second SpaceShipTwo plane a year on from the disastrous test voyage which killed the co-pilot and seriously injured the pilot.

The viewer is led through an account of the construction of the ship in Belfast, in what is now Northern Ireland, in 1909; its disastrous maiden voyage in 1912; of how, less than two days before its scheduled docking in New York, it was slashed by an iceberg; and finally, of how objects from the wreckage were dredged up from their 12,500-foot-deep watery grave.

After the monorail's disastrous maiden voyage, Nimoy calmly claims responsibility for saving everyone ("My work is done here") before vanishing, teleporter style, after being challenged by Barney: "You didn't do anything!" "Didn't I?" Small but perfectly formed, his Simpsons bits showed he could take a joke.

Based on historical accounts and characters, the musical about the ocean liner's disastrous maiden voyage "manages to be grave and entertaining, somber and joyful," said the New Yorker in reviewing the long-running Broadway production.