Sentence examples for shipmasters from inspiring English sources

After the loss of Egypt and North Africa, the grain fleets manned by hereditary shipmasters disappeared.

When the Dutch-born writer Hendrik de Leeuw visited, in the nineteen-thirties, for his book "Cities of Sin," he included it as home to "all the riffraff of the world, the drunken shipmasters; the flotsam of the sea, the derelicts, and more shameless, beautiful, savage women than any port in the world.

A few years later, Spanish shipmasters learned to take advantage of the currents, sailing westward in the North Equatorial Current and returning home via the Gulf Stream as far as Cape Hatteras, from which they set forth into the open Atlantic.

In 1798, John Adams had signed an "Act for the relief of sick and disabled Seamen": state and, later, federal government officials collected taxes from shipmasters which were used to build hospitals and provide medical care for merchant and naval seamen.

In "Collision Course," a study of the sinking of the Andrea Doria by the Stockholm, the author, Alvin Moscow, tells us, "Shipmasters - facing the choice betw.

We might have got something out of the leisurely contemplation of the crumbling brownstone graves where sleep dead merchants and shipmasters of this city, to whom thepreparation and dispatch of a letter was a weighty business desrving their best in elegance of style lucidity of expressionk, and grace of penmanship.

Such tasks included the tillage of the soil, which was the work of the peasant, or colonus; the transport of cheap bulky goods to the metropolitan centres of Rome or Constantinople, which was the work of the shipmaster, or navicularius; and services rendered by the curiales, members of the municipal senate charged with the assessment and collection of local taxes.

According to one story, a Dutch shipmaster began the practice by concentrating wine for shipment, intending to add water upon reaching home port, but the concentrated beverage immediately found acceptance.

The 47-year-old shipmaster, whose identity was not immediately made public, was charged with being liable for a vessel causing damage in a marine park, an offense that carries a maximum penalty of a fine of 55,000 Australian dollars, or $51,200.

Vanderbilt descends directly to the Brooklyn Navy Yard, and census and directory listings are redolent of salt air, with Sandy Hook pilots, sea captains, caulkers and similar occupations; the 1888 Brooklyn city directory finds Henry A. Kloeppel, shipmaster, resident at No. 117.

The son of a tenant farmer, Dampier was apprenticed to a shipmaster as a teenager.