Sentence examples for vast vessel from inspiring English sources

In this case, the coastguards in Rome called for assistance from the closest commercial boat, a Madeiran cargo ship called the King Jacob, a vast vessel 146 metres long.

The pirates forced the vast vessel to sail hundreds of miles up the coast before offloading much of its cargo close to the Niger Delta, according to the ship's owners and security sources.

One innovation is "floating LNG", vast vessels that can process gas from smaller offshore fields and then move on when the fields are exhausted.

I imagined myself as but one passenger, a mote, on a vast cruise vessel ploughing its way through darkened seas.

Shrouded by a dense fog, the vast white vessel slid silently into the bay this morning and anchored far from shore, like a ghost ship unwilling to be noticed.

Henry Meadows is composing "this blotted memoir of my wartime days" in 1980 aboard a vast, surreal vessel he has helped construct: a sort of navigable iceberg complete with fitness center, library and cinema, not to mention a mosque for the Baluchi workers and the Saudi Arabian sheik who has commissioned the ship as a way of delivering fresh water to the desert.

Ensuring that an internationally anticipated arrival of a vast cargo vessel - accompanied by a fleet of Chinese, Russian and Scandinavian warships - was kept a secret had sounded to us tweeting journalists a little like mission impossible.

Perhaps a shipload is like a shitload, only bigger, evocative of the vast container vessels that sail the world's seas.

Nearly a year later, the vast, 114,000-tonne vessel is still lying on its side a few metres from the shore: a tourist attraction for some; an eyesore and headache for the islanders, and particularly their local authority representatives.

In addition, we accomplish further important tasks with a vast amount of vessel images and obtain pleasing results, which will be described in details in the following sections.

She went out every day for a month, in a rigid inflatable boat (RIB), to hamper the work of vast Japanese whaling vessels.