Sentence examples for private vessels from inspiring English sources

Like Donald Rumsfeld, Renaissance monarchs seem to have believed in military outsourcing, and they cheaply and quickly acquired navies by granting private vessels, known as privateers, the right to raid enemy ships and pay themselves out of the plunder, a share of which they were to pass along to the government.

Back in the days of fighting sail, letters of marque authorized private vessels known as privateers to attack, seize, and profit from ships designated as targets.

The number of huge private vessels, often called megayachts, boomed along with the 1990's bull market.

The Maltese, Spanish and Swedish navies also took part in rescues on Sunday alongside the Italian coastguard and private vessels.

But private vessels have been seized on at least three previous occasions, including one in April this year.

The coastguard may repel private vessels, but not troops arriving from the air or from a submarine.

The 50-degree water off Yaquina Head was searched after a private vessel spotted the upside-down hull of the Nesika, a 40-foot vessel from Newport.

The Coast Guard seized a 20-foot private vessel of environmentalists that repeatedly violated a 500-yard exclusion zone around the canoe and arrested its captain, said Lt. Richard Howes.

Over the years, private vessel owners, companies and officials have donated not only their vessels but also their time, thoughts and efforts in order to improve the marine habitat of Gibraltar," says a spokesman for The Helping Hand.

David Lombino, a spokesman for the city's Economic Development Corporation said the yacht was the first private vessel to moor at the city-owned passenger terminal, where Cunard ocean liners frequently put in.

Instead, I'm on the club's private vessel, speeding to a round at the $250 million private golf course the most expensive ever built.