Sentence examples for single voyage from inspiring English sources

The desertion rate of 50percentt or more speaks for itself, with crews sometimes being replaced several times over in the course of a single voyage.

Some scholars argue that the first settlers came directly from Indonesia, possibly in a single voyage, and that the African elements found in the population and its culture were added later, as the result of migration and the slave trade.

Continuous voyage, in international law, a voyage that, in view of its purposes, is regarded as one single voyage though interrupted (as in the transshipment of contraband of war).

Instead this is a thoughtful, personal account of a single voyage through a violent region that does not pretend to have the answers or even a political ax to grind.

There are two basic forms: the charter party, engaging the whole capacity of the ship for a single voyage or for a period of time, and the bill of lading, which is a receipt for goods taken on board for carriage.

The former vessels, the smaller of which may have a single centre line longitudinal bulkhead, have a greater number of tanks, and more complicated pumping arrangements, which permit the carriage of a number of different products on a single voyage.

Its object, like that of the Dutch, was to trade in spices; and it was at first modestly organized on a single-voyage basis.

According to John Fossey, executive consultant at Drewry Shipping Consultants in London, container freight rates have dropped by double digits so far this year, with single-voyage contracts down as much as 30percentt.

The first major counterattack on Okinawa by the Japanese, begun on April 6, involved not only 355 kamikaze air raids but also the Yamato, the greatest battleship in the world (72,000 tons, with nine 18.1-inch [460-millimetre] guns), which was sent out on a suicidal mission with only enough fuel for the single outward voyage and without sufficient air cover.

We feel it as an ocean on which we are engaged in a single-handed voyage.

One of them is a Valentine's Day cruise for couples and singles, called Voyage of the Heart, on the Maasdam, a Holland America ship.