Sentence examples for skipper of a from inspiring English sources

Scott McDowell, the skipper of a charter fishing-boat, also claimed he had seen a shark.

For Heinz Engelhart, the skipper of a tourist ship, the hand-span rule is charming but outmoded.

"My father was an RAF pilot and my cousin the skipper of a Lancaster lost over Berlin," he adds.

He experienced incredible hardship, even torture, until the day the skipper of a Finnish freighter sighted his broken-down boat.

The skipper of a barge brings his new bride on the craft with him; she yearns to see the bright lights of Paris, but he is less keen.

An English alehouse had stood nearby for a while, then the home of the skipper of a ship called the Angel Gabriel.

He became skipper of the A team at 17, the reserves at 18 and the first team by the time he was 19.

The skipper of an approaching sailboat was too busy navigating the tricky waters around Hell Gate.

That eagerness, however, is suspended to marvellous effect in Paul Greengrass's titanium-tough tension exercise Captain Phillips (Sony, 12), in which Hanks plays the real-life skipper of an American cargo ship hijacked by Somali pirates with nothing to lose.

Although named after John Chapman, the skipper of an English ship who visited the area in 1607, the real hero of Chapman's Peak Drive is Sir Nicolas Frederick de Waal, the first administrator of the Cape Province, who tenaciously pursued the idea of a road even when engineers said it couldn't be done.

As readers of the book know, the character is based on Ray Leonard, the skipper of Satori, a Westsail 32 that was abandoned by its crew in a North Atlantic gale during a United States Coast Guard rescue operation in the fall of 1991.