Sentence examples for weak ship from inspiring English sources

The ship carried 670 LT of coal, enough to steam 1480 nautical miles at 10 knots even though Sir George Tryon described her as "a weak ship in her engines and consuming a coal-mine daily".

Buffeted by the weak shipping market, the group is struggling to refinance its debts.No one is suggesting that Europe's economic crisis is driving a return to the mega-nationalisations that created the (now defunct) giant state holding companies such as Italy's IRI or Spain's INI in the aftermath of the 1930s depression.

This design philosophy would prove to be most successful when the Invincibles were able to use their speed to run down smaller and weaker ships.

The huge distances involved, restrictions on supplies and the presence of Royal Navy warships and heavily armed East Indiamen had prevented these relatively weak French ships from attacking the convoys that transported millions of pounds worth of goods from British India and the Far East to the United Kingdom.

It was a lot quicker and cheaper, but it proved to be one of the Liberty ships' weak points.

In its initial stages, the depression remained weak, with few ships reporting abnormally strong winds in association with the storm.

In that case, we could use a gravity tractor — an ordinary spacecraft that simply hovers in front of the asteroid and employs the ship's weak gravitational attraction as a tow-rope.

A glut of ships, and slack demand for shipping in the weak global economy, have reduced the value of cargo ships.

Many others make use of "opening clauses", which let hard-pressed companies temporarily impose longer working hours or lower wages; unsurprisingly, real pay rises have lagged behind formally negotiated increases by a cumulative 12% in the past ten years.In this section A new helmsman boards the ship Ever weaker One too many?

The other main surviving provisions of the law concern financial and technical help for students and teachers learning or teaching in the Hungarian language in the neighbouring countries, and who consider themselves "Hungarian" by birth or marriage.In this section A new helmsman boards the ship Ever weaker One too many?

This was one of the weakest parts of the ship as a result of the presence of two large open spaces – the forward end of the engine room and the aft First Class passenger staircase.