During his brief career at sea Maury became impressed with the meagerness of the information then available concerning the winds and currents that aid or hinder the voyages of sailing ships.
The doldrums vary a great deal in width and the masters of sailing ships try to cross them where they are narrowest.
Fog and drifting ice are, in general, more serious obstacles to steamers than to sailing ships.
In Jones' day, all the commerce of the world was conducted in sailing ships, and all the navies of the world were also composed of sailing ships.
Java coffees "ex-sailing ships" always commanded a premium because of the natural sweating they experienced in transit.
Java Coffee "Ex-Sailing Ships" Up to 1915 it was the custom to ship considerable Java coffee to New York in slow-going sailing vessels of the type in favor a hundred years ago.
After all, in the days of sailing ships, the pirates only had sailing ships--and they weren't always such an awful lot faster.
A fellow's got to know everything about the handling of sailing ships, because part of the job is the handling of sailing ships in distress.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sailing ships" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
