Sentence examples for passing vessel from inspiring English sources
It is believed there may have been a sighting at about 10.50pm last night from a passing vessel.
Across the dark Atlantic, a projector flashed from the bridge of a passing vessel in Morse, "What ship"?
The scientists radioed a passing vessel and sent a message to a colleague at a nearby marine-mammal laboratory, who came to the beach to do an examination.
A passing vessel reported that, as the storm struck, Shelley's friend Edward Williams―who was drowned with him―tried to reef the sails, but Shelley angrily stopped him.
On May 13th the European Commission issued its plan for dealing with immigration, including the multitude who take to boats on the shores of north Africa in the hope of reaching asylum on European Union soil or, more likely, of being plucked from the waves by a passing vessel.
In October, 17 passengers and two crew were rescued from life rafts by a passing vessel after the helicopter, which was carrying an oil crew from Aberdeen to a rig 86 miles north-west of Shetland, was forced to ditch.
Local communities grew concerned about the use of heavy bunker fuels, and dumping of grey water from passing vessels.
On artificial canals of smaller dimensions, where passing vessels create a serious wash, some revetment (bank protection) is essential.
As he wandered from the tourist hotels to the ruined castle in the scruffy, historic Roma quarter, he became more and more fascinated by the constant parade of passing vessels, from little wooden fishing boats to giant tankers.
"We don't know what has been thrown over the side" of passing vessels, Professor Flood said, "so there's lots of stuff, and sediment deposits behind it as the current flows back and forth".
The main aim of this study was to carry out a probabilistic collision-risk analysis for offshore platforms exposed to powered collisions with passing vessels using an automatic identification system (AIS) database.
