To be the first vessel to hold this new thing.
In May, SpaceX, an American company, sent its first vessel, called a Dragon, to the space station.
He was attracted to the water, and at 17 he got his first vessel — a 16-foot sailboat, he said.
The boat would be the first vessel to carry would-be refugees close to the shore for over a year.
Eric Flounders, a Cunard spokesman in London, said that the original Queen Mary was the first vessel built after Cunard and White Star created one company.
During a secret World War II mission, it became the first vessel to sail west to east through the Northwest Passage.
It was the first vessel to successfully depart Greek territorial waters aiming to be part of an international flotilla challenging Israel's naval blockade.
The company was founded by Christopher Columbus Smith, who built his first vessel in 1874 and soon developed a reputation as a master.
The pair's first vessel, in the summer of 2006, was a primitive construction of wood barrels, Styrofoam, sails, paddle and electrical trolling motors connected to batteries.
They pointed out bigger objects: a Play School flower clock; a receiver from Honeysuckle Creek tracking station (remember the film The Dish?); the wheel of the first vessel to dock Vietnamese "boat people" in Australia in 1978.
The North Korean ship, which American officials suspect was sent out as a ruse, is the first vessel monitored under the new United Nations sanctions, which were adopted after the North's nuclear test.
