Sentence examples for sail shipping from inspiring English sources

Arrival times are unpredictable, capacity is limited, and at the moment sail shipping is relatively expensive.

Any switch to LNG-powered vessels is unlikely to induce a similarly dramatic decline in steamer shipping as the introduction of steam caused in sail shipping, across all market segments, since LNG-powered carriers continue also to be fitted with steam turbines, allowing boil-off gas to be used for steam production.

Steamships replaced sailing ships.

Last year's theme was a sailing ship.

They are the last sailing-ship people.

"If I knew about sailing ships I would put in sailing ships," she said.

Not a picture-postcard sailing ship but a proper industrial dirty-black-smoke sail/steam ship.

"William Bradford: Sailing Ships and Arctic Seas" continues through Oct. 26.

Not the slate paperweight shaped like a sailing ship.

"We have been sailing ships forever," Mr. Murray said.

Its name was "The Otago," the emblem a sailing ship.