Sentence examples for voyage up from inspiring English sources

Tells about the maiden voyage up from Newport News, where she was built, with more than 800 guests, including about a hundred senators and representatives who presumably were among those legislators who voted a subsidy enabling the America's owners to operate their ship on a cruise basis until Atlantic travel comes back.

On its voyage up the Thames River, Captain Biriukovich made a toast with Ukrainian vodka, "To the prosperity of Norwich".

On his voyage up the uncharted west coast of Fiordland in 1770, the British explorer Captain James Cook sailed past what appeared to be a harbor.

A lot has changed in the century since New York celebrated the tricentennial of Henry Hudson's pioneering 1609 voyage up the river that bears his name.

"We thought, why don't we do something to mark the trail?" That notion coincided with plans for the 2009 quadricentennial of Henry Hudson's voyage up the Hudson River.

"What a time of intense delight was that first sail through the Highlands," Washington Irving wrote of his first voyage up the Hudson in 1800.

The first report of the creatures in the American West was from the Lewis and Clark expedition, which encountered a large skeleton in 1804 while voyaging up the Missouri River in Sioux country.

The original Delahaye engine shell, meanwhile, had its own voyage, ending up in Germany in the 1970s.

But, unusually good weather and calm seas resulted in the boat traveling an average of only 1.5 knots and the Mermaid's maiden voyage ended up taking 111 days.

Most asylum-seeker boats that have made the precarious journey to Australia came from Indonesia, but 120 left from Sri Lanka in 2012 for what can be a voyage of up to three weeks.

Then quickly on to the bloodstream, where a white blood cell (perhaps a descendant of the one that attacked Raquel Welch in "Fantastic Voyage") gobbles up some errant bacteria before chowing down on a hapless nanobot.