Sentence examples for vessels employed from inspiring English sources

Ram-equipped triremes were extraordinarily nimble, and fleets of these vessels employed a variety of formations from which they could maneuver to ram and disable other ships.

The onset of the Revolution found the colonies with no real naval forces but with a large maritime population and many merchant vessels employed in domestic and foreign trade.

The surveying vessels employed in those seas during that period came also in succession to Hobarton namely, the Beagle, Captain Wickham; the Pelorus, Captain Harding; the Rattlesnake, Captain Owen Stanley; the Beagle (2d voyage), Captain Stokes; and the Fly, Captain Blackwood; all of whom, with the officers under them, received from the lieutenant-governor a brother sailor's welcome.

Reactors are vessels employed to carry out transformations from one chemical to another.

In 2007 there were about 76 active fishing vessels employed by 550 fishermen.

The same day, Governor Nicholas Cooke signed orders addressed to Captain Abraham Whipple, commander of the sloop Katy, and commodore of the armed vessels employed by the government.

In 2013 Scotland's active fishing fleet comprised 2,026 vessels, employing 4,992 fishermen - a 5% increase from 2012 and the first rise in employment since 2008.

After six months of investigating, the outlet found that the world's largest shrimp farmer, Charoen Pokphand Foods (CPF), purchases fishmeal from companies that "own, operate, or buy" from vessels employing slave labor.

Such vessels employ a range of fishing techniques to exploit demersal and pelagic fish species (e.g. dredging, beam trawling, pair-trawling, gill netting and longlining).

Chains usually form the upper part of moorings systems used for maritime structures such as floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) vessels, increasingly employed in the offshore oil and gas industry particularly in very deep waters.

Over 3 million vessels are employed in sea fishing.