Sentence examples for ship rapidly from inspiring English sources

This new type of ship rapidly replaced protected cruisers like Puglia.

Defence and Orion attacked the fifth French ship, Peuple Souverain, from either side and the ship rapidly lost the fore and main masts.

Echoing Mr. Manfredo's worries, Mr. Cotton noted that the canal is essentially a sophisticated machine for moving large ships rapidly between two oceans.

The movement of coal to ships rapidly became a lucrative business, and the line was soon extended to a new port and town at Middlesbrough.

The rear ship Cumberland, a veteran of the Battle of Pulo Aura, was unintimidated and returned fire as Blenheim held position so that the convoy passed ahead and the French ships rapidly came up with her.

These ships rapidly established the location and the state of the Dutch ships of the line, and then separated to raid Dutch merchant shipping, Psyche having considerable success at Semarang on 31 August when Captain Pellew destroyed two Dutch vessels, and captured three, including the Dutch 24-gun corvette Scipio, which the British renamed Samarang.

But BP has not been able to increase the collection rate because the machinery on its surface ship is rapidly nearing its 15,000 barrel-a-day limit on the amount of oil it can process for storage.

On entering the open seas the tallow was washed away by the action of the waves and the king's ship began rapidly taking on water.

By this time, her design was over ten years old and the ship was rapidly becoming obsolescent; in comparison, Germany had already commissioned the world's first light cruisers, the, which were significantly faster and better armed.

The natural advantages of Shanghai as a deepwater port and shipping centre were recognized as coastal and inland shipping expanded rapidly.

Fires on ships spread rapidly and are difficult to control.