Sentence examples for modern ship from inspiring English sources

It was the school's most modern ship, so I imagine it must have been a very violent collision.

That means more joint naval exercises and a full investigation of how a modern ship — configured for antisubmarine warfare — was caught off-guard and sunk.

Hardly any modern ship has a permanent crew any more – these are the days of manning agencies and six-month contracts.

Almost a century ago, around the time of the emergence of modern ship propulsion, electric drives were seen as viable contenders to compete with the then-rising mechanical drives.

But, in the aftermath of last weekend's incident off the Tuscan coast, there will be many people both inside and outside the industry asking how such a huge accident could happen, on such a large, modern ship in this day and age.

A modern ship is very expensive to build and is expected to operate efficiently over a long time span.

Modern ship-launched cruise missiles can deliver large explosive warheads to targets hundreds of nautical miles away.Instead, says Commander Jason Fox of Naval Sea Systems Command, the part of the navy responsible for railguns, the weapon offers three other advantages.

Modern shipping is container shipping.

Britain came later with modern ships and weapons instead, to force China to buy opium.

Modern ships are huge (up to 400m long) and include up to 30,000 parts.

At most you pass one or two crewmen: modern ships are huge but their crews small.