Sentence examples for steamship in from inspiring English sources

Tom and his comrades spent five weeks confined on a steamship in stifling heat.

(The weight of the manure generated, almost three hundred tons, is equivalent to that of the steamship in "Fitzcarraldo").

On February 3 , 1865 he met personally with Confederate commissioners on a steamship in Hampton Roads, Virginia.

That time had been halved by the 1830s, and the "Great Western" steamship in 1838 halved it again to 15 days.

It was there too for a wave of technological innovation analogous to that brought by the railway boom, the electric telegraph and the steamship in the early decades of Wilson's Economist.

1767 Torphichen, Scotland November 14, 1830 Henry Bell, (born 1767, Torphichen, Linlithgowshire, Scot. died Nov. 14, 1830, Helensburgh, Dumbartonshire) Scottish engineer who launched the first commercially successful steamship in Europe.

But they also cry out, like the locomotives and steamships in Mayakovsky's poem, for "new forms".

Koch said that in those days the exteriors might have been blackened by soot from all the steamships in the harbor.

The development of steamships in the 19th century allowed complete independence from the winds, removing the major uncertainty for sailors trying to follow a geometrically prescribed route.

Mr. Bald documents the histories of seldom-acknowledged groups of early South Asian migrants to the United States, like Muslim silk and cotton traders from West Bengal in the 1880s and Indian sailors who deserted British steamships in the early 20th century.

The square-rigger that stars in Rupert Julian's 1927 feature "The Yankee Clipper" commands the screen with a billowing grandeur that would soon all but disappear, as these vessels were replaced by steamships in the real world, and miniatures in the movies.