Sentence examples for faster voyage from inspiring English sources

Consequently his despatches arrived several days after an identical set had reached London, delivered by Captain Edward Thomson, who had left Rodney later than MacBride, but who had had a faster voyage.

Of course, Europe was too cold to actually grow the fruit and supplies depended on the luck of a fast voyage until the necessary hothouse technology could be developed.

Last Monday, the 110-foot catamaran Orange made a triumphant French landfall after completing a nonstop circumnavigation in 64 days 8 hours 37 minutes to win the Trophée Jules Verne for the fastest voyage around the planet.

Earlier that day, with the American adventurer Steve Fossett and eight other crewmen on the maxi-catamaran PlayStation, Honey was in the navigator's seat when the 125-foot boat put the finishing touches on the fastest voyage across the Atlantic Ocean ever recorded under sail.

After a relatively fast voyage of 120 days, the rhinoceros was finally unloaded in Portugal, near the site where the Manueline Belém Tower was under construction.

It's a fast-paced voyage along the twisting branches of a decision tree, in the style of Black Mirror: Bandersnatch.

On a moonless January night in 2003, Olivier de Kersauson, the French yachtsman, was racing across the Atlantic Ocean, trying to break the record for the fastest sailing voyage around the world, when his boat mysteriously came to a halt.

Later this month, de Kersauson and his crew will set out from France to compete again for the Trophée Jules Verne, an award emblematic of the fastest nonstop voyage around the world beginning and ending at the French port of Brest.

Voyages, Interrupted On Thursday, the 110-foot maxi-catamaran Orange, skippered by the French offshore star Bruno Peyron, set off from the seaside town of Brest to begin an attempt for the Trophée Jules Verne signifying the fastest nonstop voyage around the world.

For most of the next 30 years, Cunard held the Blue Riband for the fastest Atlantic voyage.

July 8, 1976 Whatstandwell, England Dame Ellen MacArthur, original name Ellen Patricia MacArthur (born July 8 , 1976 Whatstandwell, Derbyshire, England), English yachtswoman who in 2005 set a world record for the fastest solo nonstop voyage around the world on her first attempt.