Sentence examples for faster vessel from inspiring English sources

But he recently gave it up, planning to buy a faster vessel.

But Nippon skipper Peter Gilmour said last week that he came away very confident of his ability to tangle with the New Zealanders and, by extension, felt that Prada owned the faster vessel.

Pellew, who had been knighted the previous year following the Action of 18 June 1793, was reported to be unhappy that Nagle had been honoured for his part in this action and complained to the Admiralty about the condition and speed of Arethusa, requesting a faster vessel.

Cunard had faster vessels on the north Atlantic Germanyy was about to put into service a significantly larger one.

Ferries -- especially smaller, faster vessels that run frequently -- can play an invaluable role in meeting some of the city's long-term transportation needs while easing congestion.

The reports quoted the ministry as saying that while in previous years its whaling fleet had often been able to simply outrun the environmentalists, it could not do so this year because Sea Shepherd had faster vessels.

Shipping lines have invested in larger, faster vessels, and terminal owners have expanded wharf space, bought bigger cranes and installed sophisticated "in-gates" — tollboothlike plazas where cameras automatically record the ID numbers of trucks and containers.

Each successive year, Sea Shepherd has sent bigger fleets and faster vessels, while Japan has downscaled its forces; last season, for the first time, the activists had the upper hand.

Despite his famous insistence on a fast vessel, Jones's flagship, an old Indiaman renamed the Bonhomme Richard in honor of Benjamin Franklin, was, according to Thomas, a "slow tub".

The armoured cruiser was developed in this period as a large, fast vessel armed with intermediate-calibre guns and protected by armoured deck and medium-weight belt armour.

This time we were on a modern fast vessel, and the six-hour trip, to the port where gold-rushers once set off along the Chilkoot Pass trail for the Klondike, seemed to fly by.