Even when we finally get the idea, we're seldom able to think of them as the frail shapely vessels intended by the author.
Shots from Israeli Navy vessels intended to keep Palestinian fishermen within proscribed areas close to the shore also have been reported.
Most bronzes of about 1500 300 bce, roughly the Bronze Age in China, may be described as ritual vessels intended for the worship of ancestors, who are often named in inscriptions on the bronzes.
"Shipwrecked: Tang Treasures and Monsoon Winds," a collaboration with the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery at the Smithsonian Institution, shows sailors' tools like food grindstones and copper tweezers alongside stoneware and metal vessels intended for resale in the Persian Gulf region.
The Samtampa was a 7219 ton Liberty ship, built and launched in the USA in December 1943, one of many vessels intended to plug the gap caused by the German U-boat campaign against British and Allied shipping.
Coastal service and riverine vessels, including 'floating batteries' and 'monitors' Vessels intended for commerce raiding or protection of commerce, called 'armoured cruisers' The United Kingdom possessed the largest navy in the world for the whole of the ironclad period.
Mr Bethune climbed aboard the Japanese vessel, intending to arrest its captain for attempted murder and bill him for the sinking of the ship.
Ship after ship of ill-equipped migrants — many of them abducted, many of them children — went out, each vessel intended to fulfill some new harebrained scheme: winemaking, silk-making, glassmaking.
The HWT X-1 is a winged catamaran based on a modified conventional sailing vessel intended for use as a surveillance and sensor platform in either littoral or unprotected waters.
It's a vessel intended to operate alongside the ships of Washington's allies in the region.
