Sentence examples for supplying ships from inspiring English sources

The biggest florist supplying ships is Le Moult & Son, W. 28th St.

It submitted to Persia in 490 bce and was harried by the Athenian fleet for supplying ships to the Persian king Xerxes in 480.

Discovered by the Portuguese in 1502, it became a vital halfway house for supplying ships heading east with fresh water and leaving sick sailors to recover or die.

And the financial ties did not end with emancipation: A century after Witherspoon's presidency, Moses Taylor Pyne 1877 drew on his grandfather's fortune — a fortune amassed by supplying ships and financial services to slave-dependent sugar plantations — to become one of Princeton's most generous and influential benefactors.

It is the end of a long tradition of supplying ships to the Navy for the south coast yard, and comes in anticipation of a "significant" reduction in workload when the current aircraft carrier programme towards the second half of next year.

A second settlement developed as a modest fishing village on the Thames until Henry VIII used that site for a royal dock repairing, building and supplying ships, after which it grew in size and importance, shipbuilding remaining in operation until March 1869.

The company is beginning to supply ships out of Rotterdam with L.N.G., replacing viscous bunker fuel.

OSX will supply ships and rigs to OGX and, Mr Batista hopes, to Petrobras too.

France supplied most of the troops; other countries, including Britain, Russia, Austria and Holland, supplied ships.

Water is required mainly for domestic purposes but is also needed for industry and to supply ships.

It proved easier to supply ships in New Bedford, just fifty miles away, and more firmly lodged in the American continent.