Sentence examples for steamship operator from inspiring English sources

But Vanderbilt was a very successful steamship operator, and was in his late 60s when he decided to get into the railroad business.

Several dozen horses died on a single day in October, including one at 132 West 18th, which at that time was the stable of Nathaniel McCready, a steamship operator and railroad investor who lived on 22nd Street.

Beginning in 1898, he worked for Furness-Withy & Company, Limited, a steamship operator, in Canada and England.

Officials would not say which companies those were, but Mr. Zantal said proposals were expected from businesses like steamship operators and ocean carrier companies.

Averell Harriman's steamship company—for temporary operation.

As a result, the Old Bay Line took over the Chesapeake Line's business and assets and became the sole operator of passenger and freight steamship transportation between the important ports of Baltimore and Norfolk.

The cellphone episode begins on the Titanic, where the primitive state of radio communication contributed to the disaster: The ship could not send and receive at the same time, which led the Titanic's wireless operator to tell the Californian, a nearby steamship that was warning of ice, to "shut up".

From the 1730s "engineer" in North American English was being used as a synonym for "engineman", she says, applied specifically to the driver or operator of a fire engine, then later to drivers of steamships and steam-powered locomotives.

The American steamship Cecil N. Bean and the Argentinian steamship Tropero both assisted in rescue operations and rescued 39 crew members.

The steamship Arabella sails on.

Followed his father into family steamship business.