Sentence examples for ship elevator from inspiring English sources

After the ship elevator was built, it was discovered that no cables are strong enough to hoist it.

There's also a ship elevator able to lift boats and the water they float in, 16,000 tons in all.

But, in the matter of technology and the Chinese government, there is that phone call to the Association of Big, Thick Cable Manufacturers that no one made before the ship elevator was built.

"There's this underlying hope to create community that has influence, that has access, and that has the ability to affect change," says Shantell Martin, one of Summit's eventual artists-in-residence. Her notebook doodle-style illustrations would later turn the chintzy Summit At Sea cruise ship elevators into immersive daydreams.

In addition to the canal locks, a ship lift, a kind of elevator for vessels, is under construction.

Although Akagi sustained only one direct hit (almost certainly dropped by Lieutenant Commander Best), it proved to be a fatal blow; the bomb struck the edge of the mid-ship deck elevator and penetrated to the upper hangar deck, where it exploded among the armed and fueled aircraft in the vicinity.

Outside the ship, our consoling elevator's walls dissolved, Keldysh and I were two specks falling forever, specks streaming down the face of the night.

Electronic displays near the ship's passenger elevators showed how much space was available in each of the dining venues, generated by infrared sensors that monitored the body heat radiated by the people currently eating.

Fumigation typically occurs where the commodities are stored, such as in ship holds, grain elevators, warehouses, special fumigation chambers, and on shipping piers/docks.

On especially windy days -- as the steel creaked like a ship at sea, the elevator cables slapping against each building's core -- there was nervous laughter among the tenants near the top.

I spend a lot of the cruise either in or waiting for one of the ship's 24 guest elevators.