Sentence examples for river pilot from inspiring English sources

His father was a merchant seaman and river pilot and his mother a teacher.

After running aground, the river pilot Mel Adams said, "When you write all this down, my name is Tom Armstrong".

I wanted to be a river, pilot before reading Mark Twain on the subject... Tells about his family.

I wanted to be a river, pilot before reading Mark Twain on the subject... Tells about his family..

He is a kind of river pilot who knows how to steer ships past dangerous currents and hazardous shallows, keeping them in a deep and safe channel.

Born in South Shields, the son of a Tyne river pilot, Rackham was educated at Elizabeth College, St Peter Port, Guernsey, till 1953; as a result of his mother's remarriage, he emigrated to Chicago, and in 1959 began training to join the US Air Force.

Mark Twain wrote of river pilots, "Two things seemed pretty apparent to me.

Hiring river pilots to guide a ship both ways adds to the cost.

Trinity House evolved from a royal charter granted in 1514 to a medieval guild or fraternity of Thames river pilots based in the parish of Deptford Stronde.

Along this pretty but perilous stretch of the Rhine, the accident -- which injured 41 people, 3 seriously -- has dominated the dockside chatter among river pilots like Mr. Fendel.

This is their first collection and ranges over anarchist community builders, tough river pilots, militant socialist trade unionists, new women, coffee taverns, riots and garden suburbs.