Sentence examples for pilot ships from inspiring English sources

Another link with the past is the Cornish gigs, the early lifeboats that once rowed out to pilot ships or rescue the survivors from the hundreds of vessels that have been wrecked in these rock-infested waters.

This vessel was used to pilot ships across the Columbia Bar and thus improved maritime commerce for Portland.

The dazzle-camouflaged pilot ship Edmund Gardner is parked in a dry dock near Albert Dock.

The leading Venezuelan artist Carlos Cruz-Diez has been invited to transform a historic pilot ship, the Edmund Gardner, which is in dry dock near Tate Liverpool.

One week I'm away at sea aboard our 182-foot pilot ship, the New York, in the ocean about 13 miles off Sandy Hook.

Two ships have been given a dazzle makeover this summer: the Edmund Gardner, a pilot ship in Liverpool, and HMS President in London, one of the last three surviving Royal Navy ships built during the war.

A short walk from the gallery, the historic pilot ship Edmund Gardner has been docked and painted in bright red, yellow, green, and black stripes by the Venezuelan artist Carlos Cruz-Diez.

Now the optical illusions have been revived as part of a series of art commissions celebrating the centenary of World War I. Venezuelan artist Carlos Cruz-Diez has created a new work for a historic pilot ship in Liverpool, and in London today, Tobias Rehberger unveiled his transformation of the HMS President, which served as a 'dazzle ship' during the conflict.

On 19 January 1796, Surcouf met the pilot ship Cartier leading two merchantmen, the Russel and Sambolasse, through Ganges delta.

Instead the convening authority is an officer trained with an entirely different skill set, usually in waging armed conflict as a pilot, ship captain or infantry officer.

Mr. Ahmed joined as a deckhand in 2004 and was piloting ships by 2008.