Sentence examples for nautical skill from inspiring English sources

Lieutenant Franklin, accompanied by a surgeon, two midshipmen, and a few Orkneymen, embarked for Hudson's Bay, in June 1819, on board of one of the company's ships, which ran ashore on Cape Resolution during a fog on the voyage out, and was saved from foundering by Franklin's nautical skill.

The splice is a nautical skill and is what differentiates this Sea Bag from any other.

But now Nordic-language classes are packed, and universities and some high schools are teaching Scandinavian folklore and passing on nautical skills that date from the Vikings.

He completed a 52-foot multihull boat, sailed it to his retirement home in Virginia, but apparently never felt his nautical skills matched his astronautical ones.

The Shetlanders nautical skills were sought by the Royal Navy.

This gave him an opportunity to put his nautical skills to use.

Relying on nothing but his own observations and his uncanny nautical skills, Taviani insists, Columbus ignored received opinions and did not read geographical writings until after he had conceived his grand design.

She was known not only for her beauty and elegance, but for her leadership and nautical skills.

Children will marvel at the nautical pop-ups: the skill behind this book is not unlike the fiddly expertise of people who persuade boats into bottles.

"On the Clyde, in an island nation, with all the skills, with our world-class nautical college, the potential for the yards to move into renewables, wind and wave power, into leisure craft and the type of vessels they are building across Europe, and getting EU assistance for, has been ignored".

The ASTB is a written test designed to evaluate math and verbal skills, mechanical comprehension, aviation and nautical information and spatial apperception.