Sentence examples for ship set off from inspiring English sources

After the Beagle returned to England, the ship set off again for Australia with Wickham as its skipper.

The ship set off from the Turkish port of Iskenderun, about 50km from the Syrian border, at the end of last month and was intercepted near Crete.

When the ship set off, we were worried about the engines breaking down, but we soon realised the biggest problem was the waves.

Any doubts that this was a new day in Thai tourism were put aside as the ship set off down the Chao Phraya River under an exploding sunset.

In Malta, where abortion is strictly illegal, news of the proposed ship set off protests but also drew out the unexpected voices of abortion rights advocates.

Harmony of the Seas, the world's largest cruise ship, set off on Thursday on its first sea trial from Saint-Nazaire, western France, with just two months to go to delivery.

Another gallery covers the ship setting off on its journey, and then things get interesting.

Then the ship sets off from Southampton, sure of itself, unsinkable, until it comes to the ice fields of the North Atlantic, off the coast of Newfoundland — and speeds right on through them to its anchorage, here in New York.

He was serving aboard the aircraft carrier Ticonderoga in January 1945 when two kamikaze pilots scored direct hits on the ship, setting off explosions that killed 144 sailors and injured 200 more.

From those places, it seems, the plague swung inward, by land, and outward, as other ships set off.

It was from Portsmouth that, in 1787, a fleet of 11 ships set off to found the first European colony in Australia.