Sentence examples for steamship services from inspiring English sources
Onomichi now offers steamship services to ports of northern Shikoku and islands in the Inland Sea.
In the 1850s it suffered considerably as a result of the Taiping Rebellion (1850 64), and its importance as a commercial centre declined as the overland routes to Guangzhou Cantonn) were replaced by coastal steamship services in the latter half of the 19th century.
In 1850 the American Collins Line and the British Inman Line started new Atlantic steamship services.
On September 3, choppy conditions forced the suspension of steamship services to and from the mainland and the islands of Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket.
It was the last of America's once-hopping overnight steamship services when it shut down, and it saw plenty of history: its ship, the President Warfield, was deployed in the WWII Normandy invasion before falling into the hands of the underground Jewish military organization Haganah, which renamed it "The Exodus" and tried to use it to illegally get into Palestine.
In 1892 he established the first direct steamship service between New York and Peru.
Regular steamship service had now been established between the Cortlandt Street pier and Albany.
The islands are linked to Sweden and the Finnish mainland by car and passenger ferries, steamship service, and air service from Mariehamn airport.
After Chilean independence in 1818 and the final breaking of the Spanish mercantile monopoly, the port developed with the birth and evolving power of the Chilean navy and the links created by steamship service to Europe.
His father, the late Mr. E Say S wee, who was born in Malacca, was at first a Singapore merchant, but, after marrying, at the age of twenty-eight, Miss Tan ng Lian, daughter of the late Mr. Tan Choon Bock, the pioneer of the steamship service plying between Singapore, Malacca, and Pinang, he returned to Malacca to carry on business as a tapiocal planter at Ayer Chermin.
Thousands of people became stranded on offshore islands of Massachusetts after dangerous conditions created by the storm prompted the suspension of steamship service.
