Sentence examples for fastest ship from inspiring English sources

The Amsterdam, Holland America's fastest ship, will be its first to make Seattle its home port, although the company has had its headquarters there since 1983.

That one took place over 60 years ago for the "Washington Irving," the largest ship the Day Line ever owned and the fastest ship on the inland waters.

Dogged by ill luck (a broken rudder, a captain eaten by sharks) she never won a China race, but later made a packet as the fastest ship on the Australian wool run.

On 7 May 1915 the Cunard liner Lusitania, the fastest ship of its day, steaming from New York to Liverpool, was torpedoed by a German submarine 12 miles off the coast of southern Ireland, not far from Cobh.

The relatives fear that as diving technology improves, the Fitzgerald -- once the largest and fastest ship on the Great Lakes and now a pop culture legend thanks to a 1976 folk ballad by Gordon Lightfoot -- will become an irresistible trophy even for casual divers.

Included in the collection are the world's first windscreen wiper, a miners' banner at the Woodhorn Museum, Joseph's Swan's first electric light bulbs, George Stephenson's miners' lamp, a painting by Oliver Kilbourn – one of the Ashington Group of "Pitmen Painters" - and Turbinia, once the fastest ship in the world.

The nippy tea clipper quickly became one of the world's fastest ships, and has remained an object of universal fascination ever since.

Built in 1860 in Boston, the twin-screw steamer was among the fastest ships in the war, and within days it had captured 10 blockade runners.

In her day Caroline was among the fastest ships of her type at sea.

The canal, which links the Mediterranean and the Red Sea, is the fastest shipping route between Europe and Asia.

The 146-year-old canal, which links the Mediterranean and the Red Sea, is the fastest shipping route between Europe and Asia.