Sentence examples for narrow ship from inspiring English sources

(Some from combat, but mostly guys falling into chasms off narrow ship walkways that for some reason don't have guardrails).

The bridge, built in 1931, carries up to 45,000 vehicles a day on one of the main north-south highways through Seattle, passing over a narrow ship channel to Lakes Union and Washington.

On a recent afternoon, the Maluka's skipper and owner, Sean Langman, glided the narrow ship out of its lodgments at his family-owned boatyard and into the shadow of Sydney's soaring Harbor Bridge, which had not yet been built when the Maluka made its maiden voyage.

What's more, the steep and narrow ship's ladder that led to the sleeping loft was downright treacherous.

Underwritten by a $2.6 million U.S. Navy grant and due for completion in 2013, SAFFiR's joints feature muscle-like compliant linear actuators instead of rotary actuators, giving them more human-like motion and allowing SAFFiR to maneuver narrow ship passageways while carrying a high-tech fire extinguisher.

The boats speed across the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow shipping lane that connects the Persian Gulf to the Arabian Sea and beyond.

On board two V-22 Ospreys, Carter and his staff and several members of the media flew over the narrow shipping lanes, which were packed with massive container ships and other vessels.

On the bridge of HMCS Toronto, the frigate leading Operation Nanook, Commander Alex Grant points to a chart of Frobisher Bay that is largely blank except for the narrow shipping channel linking Iqaluit to the open sea.

The US has pressed for the Royal Navy's mine-countermeasures vessels (MCMVs) to have a presence around the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow shipping lane off the coast of Iran that Tehran has threatened to close.

When overcrowding or yearning for adventure and wealth sent the Vikings overseas in the late eighth century, the sight of their long narrow ships on the horizon struck dread.

Her perky, sanctimonious neighbor Phyllis (the vocally lithe Natalie Venetia Belcon) is determined to keep Pam and Pam's husband, Ernie (a hangdog John Bolton), on the straight and narrow — or ship them off to smokers' prison.