Sentence examples for shipwright from inspiring English sources
The word 'shipwright' is correct and usable in written English
It is a noun that refers to a person who designs, builds, or repairs ships. Example: My uncle is a skilled shipwright who has been working in the shipbuilding industry for over 30 years.
noun
A person who designs, builds and repairs ships, especially wooden ones.
"The Generous Georgian" includes precious pieces such as a pen and ink drawing by Agostino Carracci and a 2nd century BC bronze known as the Arundel Head.The shipwright and sailor Thomas Coram spent 17 years campaigning for the establishment of an institution for the "Maintenance and Education of Exposed and Deserted Young Children".
THE daughter of a shipwright in the Royal Navy, Elizabeth Marsh had her first sailing adventure as she travelled in her mother's womb from Jamaica to England in 1735.
With the help of a shipwright at the Marblehead Trading Company, a boatyard in Massachusetts, Anderson stripped off several layers of fibreglass to expose the original wood hull, repaired the old spruce mast and keel, replaced the pine deck, refinished the hull, and spent weeks applying eleven coats of paint.
Abraham Cunard, a Philadelphia shipwright, had settled in Nova Scotia, in the loyalist diaspora, after the American Revolution.
Later, when I ask if he's worried about the boat's not being tested before the water rises, he gives me the slightly annoyed look of a shipwright hassled by diluvian reporters.
Under the guidance of a local shipwright named Moynihan, the boys at the Fisheries School built O'Brien's Saoirse — Gaelic for "freedom" — which he and a hapless, ever-changing crew sailed around the world from 1923 to 1925.
The date is September 1988.In Mr Ikeguchi's youth, when Nagasaki was rebuilding itself after nuclear devastation in 1945, the streets near his house rang with the sound of shipwrights walking to the Mitsubishi yard each morning.
Just metres away from sailors and shipwrights maintaining the Royal Navy's latest vessels, visitors jostle on the decks of the tiny wooden HMS Victory, searching for the spot where Lord Nelson died in battle in 1805.
IN THE days when Norsemen pillaged their way around the monasteries and villages of Europe, Norwegian shipwrights were at the forefront of naval architecture.
Unlike all earlier Russian tsars, whose Byzantine splendours he repudiated, he was very simple in his manners; for example, he enjoyed conversation over a mug of beer with shipwrights and sailors from the foreign ships visiting St . Petersburg
Carpenters and shipwrights fabricated wooden boats as early as 2700 bce.
