Sentence examples for sailing vessels from inspiring English sources

Nonetheless, few sailing vessels could escape self-propelled steamers.

"The brochures show kids on sailing vessels, blue seas and white sands," she said.

The family had almost a collection of bottles picked up by sailing vessels and along coastlines.

For more than two millennia the small, lateen-rigged sailing vessels called dhows were predominant.

Even there, he could conjure up images of sailing vessels and the sea.

A number of sailing vessels, including whalers, visited the island from 1792 onward.

He also subcontracts for Cherubini, which produces some of the state's sleek 40- to 50-foot wooden sailing vessels.

By the end of the 19th century, Rauma had developed Finland's largest fleet of sailing vessels to export timber.

Its fine inner and outer harbours attracted the early British settlers because of the protection afforded their sailing vessels.

Whirling in their trajectories, they were especially effective at sea in cutting the spars and rigging of sailing vessels.

We learned also that the Broads' distinctive wide-hull, gaff-rigged sailing vessels known as wherries can navigate fully loaded in three feet of water.