Sentence examples for passenger steamship from inspiring English sources
SS El Sol was a cargo and passenger steamship launched on 11 May 1910 by the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co. of Newport News, Virginia (yard no. 130), and delivered to the Atlantic division of the Morgan Line on 20 August 1910.
In 1934, the Cunard Steamship Company merged with the White Star Line to form Cunard White Star Line, which became the largest passenger steamship company in the world, helping to make Liverpool one of the most important centres of the British trans-Atlantic ocean liner industry.
The ferries transported the wagons and passengers 30 km across Tinnsjø; until 1936 Norsk Transport had to compete with a passenger steamship service, but after their closing the railway ferries were responsible for all passenger traffic on the lake, which also helped boost passenger traffic on the trains.
The S.S. Keewatin, a really-big-boat-turned-museum (Blue Star Highway at Union Street, Douglas; 269-857-2464; www.keewatransportsemuseum.com; $12 to $25) transports visitors to the world of passenger steamships, like this 350-foot one, which first appeared on the Great Lakes in 1907.
The town of Orsova -- once a key port for the passenger steamships which plied the Danube -- was also destroyed by the new lake, though a pale imitation was rebuilt along the new waterline.
Passenger steamships called at Herne Bay pier on their route between London and destinations along the north coast of Kent from 1832, but this service ceased in the first half of the 20th century.
The islands are linked to Sweden and the Finnish mainland by car and passenger ferries, steamship service, and air service from Mariehamn airport.
Two such groups, backed by a U.S. government subsidy, were given sole rights to the route across Panama, carrying passengers, by steamship and canoe, between New York Harbor and San Francisco in five weeks.
The book's protagonist is a steamship passenger named Henry Preston Standish, who slips on a spot of oil and tumbles overboard.
He's a rubber-plantation worker in Indochina who has a fling with a stranded steamship passenger of easy virtue (Harlow, barely 21 at the time and adorably comic) but quickly throws her over for a "real lady" (Mary Astor), who turns out to be equally seducible.
