Sentence examples for seafaring towns from inspiring English sources

"They were know as 'herring hogs' in most of the seafaring towns in the US," says Burnett.

Factory freezer trawlers, developed after the Second World War, grew to be so gargantuan that they amounted to, in effect, seafaring towns.

IT'S not easy being a small seafaring town.

This is an old seafaring town, Japan's version of Nantucket long ago.

Eventually we arrived at the seafaring town of Marstal, its long maritime history displayed in fascinating detail at the local museum.

When September comes to the seafaring town of Lunenberg in Nova Scotia, thousands of spectators gather to bear witness to an international competition that traces its roots to 1916, when local residents organized a homecoming celebration for the Grand Banks schooners returning from a summer of fishing off Newfoundland.

With roots dating to 500 BC, this seafaring town, once ruled by Venice, has a vibrant port (including a "porto vecchio," or old port, dotted with boats painted blue and red), and a beautiful historic center filled with churches, palazzi and houses tinted white and cream.

If you haven't had your fill of seafaring, the town offers a ferry service over to Rathlin Island too.

A few months later, the seafaring North Fork town found its streets invaded by the same buccaneers, wenches and orphans.

On the seafront is the Mo Museum (01263 824482; sheringhammuseum.co.uk), built in 2010 to tell the town's seafaring history.

The Cayman Islands National Museum in George Town traces the islands' seafaring history.