Sentence examples for supply vessels from inspiring English sources

The shallow waters teem with activity as oil rigs, supply vessels, drilling ships and the like go about their business.

ABERDEEN, SCOTLAND — Offshore supply vessels resembling large, floating trucks fill Victoria Dock, unable to find charters, in a sign of the downturn in the British oil industry.

Three supply vessels are due to arrive over the course of the five-month mission, and all need to be grabbed with the space station's robotic arm.

But scientists say that diesel fuel can also be toxic when spilled, and are calling at the very least for tighter controls on fuel supply vessels.

During his mission, Peake hopes to use the station's robotic arm to capture incoming supply vessels, and venture outside on one of the planned space walks.

Besides those supply vessels loitering in the Indian Ocean, Japan has contributed soldiers for reconstruction work and air crews for logistics support in Iraq.

For some background, the Xue Long is used as a supply vessel for China's Antarctic Zhongshan Station.

The Wave Knight, a supply vessel with 75 merchant seamen and 25 Royal Navy sailors on board, was immediately sent to head off the pirates.

The mouth of the Mississippi River partly reopened to traffic after a supply vessel that sank after a collision on Saturday was moved aside, the Coast Guard in New Orleans said.

In 1883, as no supply vessel had arrived, Greely started south in five small boats, according to instruction, and reached Cape Sabine in Smith Sound.

An offshore supply vessel called the Crystal Clear, which was at a nearby oil platform, picked the crew members up and took them to the nearest platform.