Alone ye'll have to be until such times as a passing vessel 'ull loan ye a man or two to help you home.
This conjecture was confirmed by the next speech of his that Mariana translated: "Then what remains but for me to be transshipped to a passing vessel--Mariana and me?
Wonder if, for some reason or other, the shore-party have left the island, and been carried away by a passing vessel?
It would be easy for the working-party to pull off, if necessary, and intercept a passing vessel.
At first he rambled on about the storm that had wrecked them; and then about their chance of falling in with a passing vessel; and then about some woman named Hannah who would be worrying about him because he did not come home.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "passing vessel" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.