Unpleasant duties are also by no means uncommon on board a sailing ship.
He was going to sea, and had been describing his apprentice's uniform, and the life he fancied he was to lead on board a sailing ship, to an appreciative audience.
In the daytime the afterguard were never idle; there is always plenty to do in a sailing ship, and when not attending to their special duties the scientists were kept working at everything that helped the show along.
We stayed a couple of days coaling and taking magnetic observations at Funchal, then ran out to the north-east Trades, let fires out, and became a sailing ship.
A long voyage by sailing ship seems to have become a favourite prescription for lung complaints; and it is doubtless an honest one, as the doctor who gives it at the same time parts with his patient and his fees.
Australia was recommended, because of the considerable time occupied in making the voyage by sailing ship, and also because of the comparatively genial and uniform temperature while at sea.
Our vessel being a sailing ship of the old type, with broad bluff bows, necessitated our adopting that course.
Break her machinery, and, if there be no friendly dock open to receive her, she is reduced at once to a sailing ship, and generally a poor one, too.
That is, under such circumstances, modern improvements would be worse than useless; a sailing ship would be the best possible ship.
I have heard that the Venture plans to sail at any time, and you well know she is a fast-sailing ship.
If he should ever go to sea in a sailing ship, what a day that would be!
With strong ropes and the power of three hundred men, the frame and its contents were lifted out of water, and the Variag became a sailing ship.
Her iron, wood work, and engines were brought in a sailing ship to the Amoor and there put together.
Lowering the chimney and hoisting the screw, the Yariag became a sailing ship, though her steaming propensities remained, just as the artificial bull-dog undoubtedly retained the pointer instinct.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sailing ship" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
