Sentence examples for steamship for from inspiring English sources

Not the same people who had laughed at Robert Fulton's steamship, for they were long dead.

General Castro was unable to transfer to a steamship for Venezuela.

They boarded a steamship for New York and received their final pay at Hart's Island on December 14, where they disbanded.

Later that month, the ship was the official "World Missionary Conference Steamship" for delegates and representatives on their way to the World Missionary Conference in Edinburgh, Scotland.

These were the electric telegraph for communications, steamships for rapid contact with the outside world, railways for the movement of people and products, and "the free press, introduced for the first time to Asiatic society, and managed principally by the common offspring of Hindus and Europeans".

He spent that period in the capital overseeing the construction and repair of several sailing vessels and steamships for the Brazilian armada.

In a hastily dictated letter to America, she begs for a steamship ticket for Lily.

"I do not want to sit shiva for my daughter," she wrote to relatives in Chicago, referring to the Jewish period of mourning, as she begged for a steamship ticket for the imperiled young woman.

Going back to a time before cheap flights, departing for a holiday from Glasgow meant boarding a steamship bound for a seaside resort on the Clyde.

The vessel was then reconditioned by USSB for transatlantic service, and chartered by the U.S. Mail Steamship Company, for whom she made one voyage to Europe in March 1921.

He launched the first steamship used for regular ocean crossings, the Great western.