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    Use "steamship" in a sentence

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    steamship


    1. It wasn't even as big as a life boat on an ancient steamship


    2. For your information he was the second Minoan man I’ve ever had and that saxophone player on the steamship was the third


    3. Captain Perry settled the steamship into its berth at the dock on the morning tide, the gang way was set in place and it was Mr


    4. Stephens Bulloch, was one of a group who backed the steamship


    5. from the Pacific Mail Steamship Company


    6. me of a steward on the steamship that had brought him to New


    7. In England in the 1840s, several steamship companies experimented with iron hulls and screw propel lers, but Cunard thwarted them whenever he could and continued to use wooden hulls and sidewheelers


    8. ” 19 By spending $600,000 to build a new steamship with an iron hull using a new and more powerful beam engine to drive the propeller, compared to the traditional side-lever engine that drives the paddle, Vanderbilt introduced a more substantial and reliable ship


    9. After the Civil War, Cornelius Vanderbilt took his steamship profits and built the New York Central Railroad enterprise, which connected the east coast with Chicago and other Midwest cities


    10. The political entrepreneurs favored subsidized monopolies and federal aid, and in the steamship industry their actions led to price-fixing, technological stagnation, and the bribing of competitors and politicians

    11. In fact, it was Hill who invested six million dollars into his Great Northern Steamship Company


    12. steamship enabled whale hunters to drastically increase their


    13. A set of lights from a big steamship appeared in the distance


    14. We called on Carton and lost no time in having the men he could spare placed in watching the railroads and steamship lines to prevent if we could any of the gang from getting out of the city that way


    15. "The paddle wheel steamship "Arctic" was struck by the steamer "Vesta" six days ago


    16. "One's godmothers ought to have told one," said Fanny, looking in at the window of Bacon, the mapseller, in the Strand--told one that it is no use making a fuss; this is life, they should have said, as Fanny said it now, looking at the large yellow globe marked with steamship lines


    17. steamship, and Death chasing it up and down the storm,


    18. With the steamship, the electric telegraph, the newspaper, the


    19. Of non-European crews, lascars and Kalashes, I have had very little experience, and that was only in one steamship and for something less than a year


    20. I will try to relate it here mainly in the words of the chief engineer of a certain steamship which, after bunkering, left Lerwick, bound for Iceland

    21. Was there one? Were there two? They seemed to be smelling a rat there! Has not some charitable soul told them (what even schoolboys who read sea stories know) that when a ship sinks from a leak like this, a deck or two is always blown up; and that when a steamship goes down by the head, the boilers may, and often do break adrift with a sound which resembles the sound of an explosion? And they may, indeed, explode, for all I know


    22. In the only case I have seen of a steamship sinking there was such a sound, but I didn't dive down after her to investigate


    23. I am well aware that in the eighties the steamship Arizona, one of the "greyhounds of the ocean" in the jargon of that day, did run bows on against a very unmistakable iceberg, and managed to get into port on her collision bulkhead


    24. I was standing on the Circular Quay with a Sydney pilot watching a big mail steamship of one of our best-known companies being brought alongside


    25. A long-simmering labor dispute between nearly thirty-five thousand members of the International Longshoremen’s Association and steamship companies had flared up in port cities up and down the West Coast


    26. Twelve hundred ILA members formed flying wedges and smashed through cordons of mounted police armed with tear gas and billy clubs, successfully shutting down the unloading of cargo by strike breakers, among them University of Washington fraternity boys and football players recruited by the steamship companies


    27. He might have been Hernandez himself; though my servant, who has been many times to Sulaco by sea, assured me that he had recognized him very well for the Capataz of the Steamship Company's Cargadores


    28. "I was a fellow-traveller, on the steamship, with Sparrow MacCoy, and at least I had the satisfaction of spoiling his little game for the voyage


    29. ‘All?’ Mr Shumway clutched at the booth curtain as if his shop were a steamship that had suddenly tilted in a great swell


    30. It looks like them steamship posters I seen in the travel windows half my life

    31. There was no response to the hail from one tug, and as others closed in, the steamship quickened her speed a little and left them behind as she swung up the channel


    32. Less than 24 hours after the Cunard Line steamship Carpathia came in as a rescue ship with survivors of the Titanic disaster, she sailed again for the Mediterranean cruise which she originally started upon last week


    33. "The archbishops of the country, in joint session with the trustees of the Catholic University of America, beg to offer to the President of the United States their expression of their profound grief at the awful loss of human lives attendant upon the sinking of the steamship Titanic, and at the same time to assure the relatives of the victims of this horrible disaster of our deepest sympathy and condolence


    34. British indignation, which is not easily excited, was aroused over the knowledge that an antiquated law enables steamship companies to fail to provide sufficient life-boats to accommodate the passengers and crew of the largest liners in the event of such a disaster as that which occurred to the Titanic


    35. There will be high speed boats for use as transports and a wise government will assist steamship companies in paying for them, as the English Government is now doing in the cases of the Lusitania and Mauretania, twenty-five knot boats; but no steamship company will put them out merely as a commercial venture


    36. "The bodies of three men in a group, all clinging to one steamship chair, floated near by, and just beyond them were a dozen bodies of men, all of them encased in life-preservers, clinging together as though in a last desperate struggle for life


    37. The steamship appeared, and grew in size and power until such giants of the wave as the Titanic and Olympic were set afloat


    38. The Unicorn, sent out by this company as a pioneer, entered Boston harbor on June 2, 1840, being the first steamship from Europe to reach that port


    39. Other ocean steamship companies gradually arose, some of which are still in existence


    40. Moreover, it can be shown that the steamship owners are fully aware of the danger to their passengers; that the laws on the subject of life-saving appliances are wholly inadequate; that the steamship companies comply with the law, though they oppose any changes therein, and that they decline to adopt improved appliances; because there is no public demand for them, the demand being for high schedule speed and luxurious conditions of travel

    41. Ismay said that no other executive officer of the steamship company was on board, which practically made him the sole master of the vessel the minute it passed beyond the control of the captain and his fellow-officers


    42. "I reported the entire matter myself to the steamship Baltic at 10


    43. He told me that it had come by wireless from the steamship Virginian, which had been appealed to by the Titanic for aid


    44. The testimony before the committee on April 24th showed that the big steamship was on the verge of a field of ice twenty or thirty miles long, if she had not actually entered it, when the accident occurred


    45. Moore, of the steamship Mount Temple, who hurried to the Titanic in response to wireless calls for help, told of the great stretch of field ice which held him off


    46. Within his view from the bridge he discerned, he said, a strange steamship, probably a "tramp," and a schooner which was making her way out of the ice


    47. The steamship Californian, controlled by the same concern as the Titanic, was nearer the sinking steamship than the nineteen miles reported by her captain, and her officers and crew saw the distress signals of the Titanic and failed to respond to them in accordance with the dictates of humanity, international usage and the requirements of law


    48. That a revision be made of steamship inspection laws of foreign countries to conform to the standard proposed in the United States


    49. Some years ago Chinese merchants were able to arrange with the steamship companies to sell no tickets to Chinamen unless they could show what has been incorrectly called a permit from one or the other of these companies


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    Synonyms for "steamship"

    steamer steamship packet ship

    "steamship" definitions

    a ship powered by one or more steam engines