Instead of ships resting at their piers until they sailed abroad again, the Cunard line thought it would be a good idea if they could be sent out on short cruises somewhere.
Those patrols, starting in January, marked the first time in recent history that the Chinese Navy sailed abroad on a mission to protect Chinese ships and the nation's strategic interest, said Admiral Bill Owens, former vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and current chairman of AEA Investors in Hong Kong.
The years 1410-20 saw the treasure-fleets of the Ming dynasty, vanquishers of the Mongols, sailing far abroad.
By Marc Connelly The New Yorker, March 24 , 1928P. 19 Couple on way to Europe tell story of their servant's misfortune and how they were discharged prior to the couple sailing for abroad.
The New York Supreme Court set a date of Feb. 25 to hear BMW Oracle's complaint that Alinghi, the defending America's Cup champion from Switzerland, breached Cup rules by having its sails made abroad.
After the season ended, Berg took his first trip abroad, sailing from New York to Paris.
That gave him new dimensions: there were family holidays abroad and sailing in Suffolk.
In May of 1850, after four years abroad, Margaret Fuller set sail from Livorno to New York, bound for her native Massachusetts.
The most obvious signal of international status is that the seasons are folding one into another for the man who takes weekend breaks abroad, skiing one month, sailing the next, indulging his appetite for extreme sports.
But without the America's Cup Act, ships from abroad that are meant to sail alongside the racing yachts will have to be replaced by local vessels, at a high cost to the event organizer.
