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Example sentences for "each ship"

  • That public books of plunder are to be kept in each ship, the plunder to be appraised and divided as soon as possible after capture.

  • On each ship a young midshipman stood on the bridge beside the officer on watch looking through a little instrument of bars and glasses and wheels graduated to a scale of figures and called a stadimeter.

  • Just as eight bells were struck, when not more than half a dozen lights were visible on each ship of the fleet, a great beam of white shot out across the starboard of the Connecticut.

  • Before each party went ashore the executive officer on each ship read to them the order of Admiral Evans allowing them liberty to the fullest extent in keeping with discipline and warning them to be on their good behavior.

  • Each ship looked as if it were a thousand legged spider, each leg made up of a ray of light.

  • That each ship's boats should be kept together, by towing each other, which will keep the people of each ship collected; and the boats will be in six divisions, and nearly get on shore at the same moment.

  • Each ship to make as many iron ramrods as possible; it being found that the wooden ones are very liable to break, when used in a hurry.

  • The marines of each ship of the line to be put in their launches--which will carry them.

  • In twenty-four hours more we had fifty men down and the Duchess upwards of seventy, and in the next twenty-four hours, ten more fell sick in each ship.

  • This was done accordingly by signal, and the people of Odessa must have seen dimly a brave show of bunting in our armada, as it required many flags to express the various draughts forward and aft of each ship.

  • Subsequently to the Admiral's return, he signalled to each ship to notify her draught of water.

  • Each ship's boats to land her own troops.

  • The captain of each ship is to be responsible for the disembarkation of his own troops and baggage.

  • Footnote 44: Column and line ahead are equivalent terms, each ship steering in the wake of its next ahead.

  • I desire particularly to know the condition of each ship.

  • About noon, each ship's number was made in succession, and the question was put if she had sustained any material injury in the late conflict.

  • That of Sir Gervaise Oakes was compact, each ship being as near as might be a cable's length distant from her seconds, ahead and astern.

  • We wait with impatience the returns of the loss sustained by each ship.

  • This information will enable me to keep rather a greater supply of provisions than I had made arrangements for, having scarcely reserved four weeks to each ship of the squadron.

  • Each ship, of course, has always had its band and orchestra, and concerts and rather crude theatrical shows have been features of Navy life from time immemorial.

  • Each ship has a nightly performance, the projector being at the disposal of the men during the week, and of the officers on Saturday.

  • Down past the head of line after line she steamed, the men of each ship as she came abreast standing at attention to salute the Flag of the Admiral.

  • Each ship has a daily bulletin of the new films arriving, and at once sends in an application for its preference, with two or three alternatives should the first choice have gone to a prior claimant.

  • A fleet-sweeper with a working party went out one fine morning and called on each ship.

  • The prisoners, 138 in number, were distributed over the Australian and New Zealand transports, an officer and half a dozen men being placed on each ship.

  • Each ship had a little engine installed forward to provide for the powerful electric headlight fastened on the bows.

  • Orders had been given for all the men-of-war at Spithead to send their boats, with the captains and all the officers of each ship, accompanied by a party of marines under arms, to attend the execution.

  • Each ship, as she arrived nearly opposite to her appointed station, let her anchor go by the stern and presented her broadside to the Danes.

  • In 1663 an established number of seamen was fixed to each ship of war according to her rate, and servants were at this time first allowed to the captains and officers.

  • The Dutch admiral and his officers behaved with the greatest gallantry, each ship taking up her position as close to the enemy's batteries as she could get.

  • If they put out their boats, they could not bring into action more than six good boats from each ship, total, one hundred and twenty boats.

  • That meant that in each ship thirty-four men, who knew all about the coming event, who had experienced much hard work and considerable discomfort, were to be disembarked just when the fight was about to begin.

  • These with a few others, such as signalmen, brought the total in each ship up to no less than fifty-three.

  • So the conning and steering arrangements and the whole system of command in each ship was to be triplicated.

  • It had been the custom for many years to carry a great many soldiers in each ship, in addition to the crew of sailors.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    each army; each branch; each breed; each brigade; each cake; each cell; each child; each coil; each composed; each course; each group; each leaf; each letter; each occasion; each others; each person; each petal; each second; each sign; each step; each stroke; each student; each system; each tooth; each village; each wing