Sentence examples for trading vessels from inspiring English sources

By 1645 the first trading vessels were plying between the Kolyma and the Lena along the Arctic coast.

The 19th-century tea clipper was one of the last large trading vessels to be built before steam replaced sail.

The nation's first military action was authorized in this way, with Congress enacting a series of statutes in 1798 to prevent France's interference with American trading vessels.

In those days, it was the practice of trading vessels to stick close to the coast, and to dock every three or four days.

The dispute arose as a result of the seizure by the Spaniards in 1789 of four British trading vessels owned by Captain John Meares and his associates.

The trading vessels, dating from the first century B.C. to the fifth century A.D., are among the deepest wrecks discovered in the Mediterranean in recent years, the researchers said.

On June 27 , 1824 a trading vessel en route from Mauritius to England was caught in a powerful gale.

Happily, the plot draws you in from page to page, just as Weaver is enticed by his beautiful in-law Miriam, the widow of his cousin Aaron, who died when a trading vessel sank.

One of them, "Strait North Beyond" (2000), has decorative oars and is somewhat reminiscent of the Phoenician round boat, a merchant and trading vessel used throughout the ancient world.

The Chinese explorer Zheng He made seven voyages to the Indian Ocean region between 1405 and 1433, and it was on an Indian trading vessel that the Russian voyager Afanasy Nikitin reached India in 1469.

There is no record of any other ship going down in flames in the North River at that time, which suggests that the Tijger, a trading vessel a world away from home, burned and sank beneath the water where almost four hundred years later two towering buildings devoted to world trade burned and sank to the ground.