Sentence examples for successful ship from inspiring English sources

Watt's father, the treasurer and magistrate of Greenock, ran a successful ship- and house-building business.

They were successful ship builders who engaged in ever-widening trade, east to Russia and south to Rome and Baghdad.

He entered the shipping business in New York as a young man and went on to become a successful ship broker, founding his own firm, Tricontinental Shipping Corp., in 1960.

It is a shame that the city and state did not insist on maintaining the jobs at this successful ship repair facility and insist that Ikea -- which plans to open a megastore there in 2007 -- find a way to accommodate it.

His father, Harald, was a successful ship's broker.

Ferguson could not have handed Moyes a more steady and successful ship.

The U.S. Navy fought a number of successful ship-to-ship actions in the War of 1812, which in part grew out of British impressment of American seamen and other U.S. maritime grievances against Britain.

Livermore was a founder of a successful shipping and brokerage firm.

Liberia is a successful shipping flag of convenience, although its registry is run from Virginia.The Gambian registry already has "several hundred" companies, says Charlotte Pawar, a manager.

In the coming weeks, Greece's highly successful shipping community will similarly be approached to participate in "what has to be a collective effort" to save the country.

Elaine Lan Chao grew up in New York, where her father worked three jobs, put himself through college, and eventually built a successful shipping business.