In 1524, Florentine explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano – sailing in service of the French king Francis I – was the first European to visit the area that would become New York City.
Because you don't have to do much more than sit back and drink a little vermouth while the skipper handles the engine and sails, the service makes for a nice vacation.
In 1867 the Pacific Mail Steamship Company opened the first transpacific service, sailing from San Francisco to Yokohama Japan and Hong Kongng.
She completed one more round trip in U.S. Navy service, sailing to Gibraltar after the Armistice in November.
Departing from Libau on 23 February, she began a regular Libau – Danzig – Boston New Yorkrk service, sailing opposite and.
Benbow left the Navy and entered the merchant service, sailing a merchant vessel from London and Bristol to ports in Italy and Spain.
After her withdrawal from the Italian route, Princess Matoika was transferred to New York Bremen service, sailing on her first commercial trip to Germany since before World War I on 14 June.
Ambitious and industrious, he's eventually given a pardon and lured by the desire to 'make a pile' and return to London, Thornhill takes up a lucrative freighting job sailing north to service the farms and outposts along the remote Hawkesbury river.
The strait, which is named for a Greek who sailed in the service of Spain and may have visited the passage in 1592, is used by ships bound for Vancouver and Seattle.
After graduating, in 1903, he caught one last performance of the Beethoven C-Minor Symphony, which was the sort of music the Apostles classed as "supreme," packed up ninety volumes of Voltaire (a way of bringing Strachey along), and, now a cadet in the Civil Service, sailed for Ceylon.
