How To Use Ship's company In A Sentence

  • I only still live of all that brave, mad, scallywag ship's company ... CHAPTER IX
  • Linschoten, describing a Portuguese ship's company, dismisses them with three contemptuous words, "the swabers pump"; but alas, that was but the first duty of your true swabber. On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien.
  • I could have done no more if I had been there with all my ship's company," the commander declared; for the amateur captain of the Travancore was a conscientious man, and desired to relieve his mind of all blame for his conduct; and he had really done all that could be done, though the remedy applied was a failure. Across India Or, Live Boys in the Far East
  • During WWII, while in command of the sloop HMAS Yarra, he and his ship's company put up a valiant fight to protect an Allied convoy from Japanese attack in the Java Sea.
  • To have the ship's company clearly visible on deck, or in the days of sail, aloft on the yards, meant that the guns were not manned.
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  • My captain vowed to win the Victoria Cross, our highest decoration for bravery, and drove the ship's company to help him.
  • The ship's company from the Sandown-class minehunter spent the last year or so gathering together almost £8,000 for the Clifton Special School in Bangor, Northern Ireland.
  • To have the ship's company clearly visible on deck, or in the days of sail, aloft on the yards, meant that the guns were not manned.
  • A most pleasant man, his naturally friendly manner and infectious good humour have made him a popular member of the Ship's Company.
  • These lower decks, mainly used by members of ship's company who are not associated with flight operations, contribute plenty of flying debris when they are swept by the downwash of a helicopter rotor.
  • Being able to talk to the ship's company, as well as the past and present members of the ODT today, has enabled me to fully appreciate the significant strength that the RNZN delivers to the nation when all elements work together as smoothly as you all clearly do. NZ On Screen
  • Only three of the battlecruiser's ship's company of 1,421 survived.
  • The yachtsmen, who were sailing from Gove to Darwin expressed appreciation of the efforts by PALUMA and her ship's company.
  • As the navigator's equivalent of adventurer with a pelorus, she has endeared herself to the ship's company with her prowess on the bridge and her stamina ashore.
  • This was followed by a random draw of names from the entire ship's company to work in that space.
  • As the ship's company, in their summer whites, descended the gangway in single file, a roar of jubilation filled the air.
  • With large fleets of small fishing dhows clustered around the edges of the exclusion zones, Somerset's ship's company must remain alert to what is happening in particularly sensitive areas.
  • All of those who have been involved, whether from the shipbuilder, Ministry of Defence or ship's company, have the right to be hugely proud of their achievements.
  • Blue skies and glorious sunshine greeted the ship's company of HMS Manchester when they exercised the freedom of the namesake city.
  • To have the ship's company clearly visible on deck, or in the days of sail, aloft on the yards, meant that the guns were not manned.
  • Later that morning, the ship berthed alongside in Darwin which allowed the ship's company to participate in a number of local commemoration events.
  • At night they worked under the glare of powerful floodlights and members of the ship's company helped.
  • They will have a ship's company of 48, of whom 12 will be officers and 14 senior ratings.
  • Her entire ship's company of 30 men were lost.
  • That was all, and an entire ship's company stared down in silence and fear at a sea-monster grief-stricken over its dying progeny. CHAPTER XV
  • St Albans weighs in with a displacement of 4,200 tons when she is fully loaded, and has a ship's company of around 180.
  • The ship is embarking several relatives of the ship's company at Stavanger who will stay on board the ship for her final passage back to Devonport where she is expected to arrive on July 27.
  • The ship's company, resplendent in white, marched onboard and cheered ship, before CMDR Sammut was piped across the gangway for the first time.
  • The mines were found by his ship's company concealed below decks in a barge.
  • Now, though Captain Riga had not been guilty of any particular outrage against the sailors; yet, by a thousand small meannesses -- such as indirectly causing their allowance of bread and beef to be diminished, without betraying any appearance of having any inclination that way, and without speaking to the sailors on the subject -- by this, and kindred actions, I say, he had contracted the cordial dislike of the whole ship's company; and long since they had bestowed upon him a name unmentionably expressive of their contempt. Redburn. His First Voyage

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