Sentence examples for sailing master from inspiring English sources

The island was named for Joseph Whidbey, the sailing master for George Vancouver.

Six years later, his father, George, moved the family to New Orleans, to take a job as a sailing master for the Navy.

His Hall is a less sympathetic character than Henderson's, seen busily micromanaging, but not stopping his sailing master from boozing his way through the ship's supply of ethanol.

The strong cast includes some admirable veterans, among them Richard Stilwell as Mr. Redburn, the first lieutenant, and Timothy Nolen as Mr. Flint, the craggy sailing master.

The son of a shoemaker, Selkirk ran away to sea in 1695; he joined a band of buccaneers in the Pacific and by 1703 was sailing master of a galley on a privateering expedition.

After six years as a midshipman, he was promoted to sailing master of the Resolution and served under James Cook on the great captain's third and final voyage to the South Seas (1776 79).

Race veteran David Witt, sail master from Ragamuffin, said the 2015 race has thrown up the toughest conditions in years.

In 1519 Cano sailed as master of the Concepción, one of five vessels in Ferdinand Magellan's fleet, which had sailed west from Europe with the goal of reaching the Spice Islands (the Moluccas) in the East.

The crew made several unsuccessful attempts to re-float the ship, after which the master sailed one of the ship's boats to Pitcairn Island.

To operate a sailing ship was to master a "craft". You had to observe and interpret nature, adapt and react to fast-changing conditions, obey without question, decide without doubt, toil without pause.

!!!" I scream as one disc sails by my master-thespian noggin and another simultaneously bursts into bits around my ankles.