Sentence examples for official voyage from inspiring English sources

The Florida, a brand-new Confederate gunboat on her maiden official voyage, eventually took 3½ months to effect repairs from the Oneida's guns.

Mr. Sarkozy is scheduled to travel on the plane's first official voyage on Nov. 11 to Seoul for a G-20 summit meeting.

Britannia carried the Royal family on 968 official voyages.

During 44 years serving the Royal Family, the yacht went on 968 official voyages around the world.

From there, it will embark on its official maiden voyage on 22 May to its new home port of Barcelona, after which it will begin regular cruises through to late October.

He painted The Kongouro from New Holland from sketches by the voyage's official artist – who had died on the way back – and a kangaroo's skin, which it is thought he inflated, no doubt leading to his roo's somewhat rotund appearance.

Scott was given leave from the Navy to write the official expedition account, The Voyage of the Discovery; this was published in 1905, and sold well.

While anchored in Dungeness Bay on the south shore of the Strait of Juan de Fuca, third lieutenant Joseph Baker made an observation of Mount Baker, which Vancouver recorded in his journal: Six years later, the official narrative of this voyage was published, including the first printed reference to the mountain.

But New York State officials stopped the maiden voyage and they continue to delay the start of the tribe's passenger boat transportation business.

The vessel tied off on a pier in the harbor on Lesser Tunb Island, a tiny spit of land just west of the Strait of Hormuz that is claimed by both Iran and the United Arab Emirates, officials familiar with its voyage said.

And while passengers play the slots, bob their heads to the Jazzmanian Devils cover band and soak up the breeze and respectable amounts of rum, cruise officials carefully follow the voyage.