In the same month there were 2,159 cross-Channel sailings and ten losses, nine of these vessels being unescorted.
Towards the end of 1916, before I left the Fleet, a system of "protected" sailings was therefore introduced.
On Lake Como a convenient little flyleaf guide for the lake sailings is sold on board at the price of 5 centessimi (one halfpenny).
The sailings of the steamboats are to be found in the Indicateurs.
Then he went back to the banker's, and with the help of the Paris-New York Chronicle which he found there, he got the sailings of the first steamers home.
She put up a gallant fight, but, against a company making six sailings at each end of the route per day, there was no room left into which she could squeeze without finding a competitor alongside.
Later sailings in the Gazette have frequently omitted the type of vessel.
The voyage viâ the Cape of Good Hope occupied from three to six months; the sailings were less frequent than at the present day, and the journey was invariably attended with innumerable discomforts.
Lloyds's coffee-house was supplied by the Post Office with the arrivals and sailings of British ships, and it paid for the information no less than L200 a year.
As postilions were employed on one side of the water, so expresses were employed on the other; and these, with punctual sailings between port and port, constituted a service which for those days might be considered excellent.
British steamer Western Coast lost in English Channel; British steamer Deptford hits a mine off Scarborough; Scandinavian conference decides against convoying ships; sailings between Sweden and England resumed.
These may be grown in the rich soils of any part of the Island, but are only profitable when cultivated close to railroads or within easy reach of steamship lines having daily sailings from Havana.
The sailings average about five a week and schedules are prepared from time to time to meet the requirements of trade.
This year, as last, accommodations on the first sailings were purchased at a premium, or could not be had at all.
From the Downs to the north, measures adopted for protection of the ships call for a time-table of sailings and arrivals that can only be adhered to by the pilot's aid.
Latterly, sailings were restricted to the hours of daylight; a system of sectional passages is enforced, by which all vessels are scheduled to make a protected anchorage before nightfall.
They would not dare to fail; and he himself had organized the system by which the most precise information with regard to sailings was conveyed to the German Admiralty.
She had been studying the sailings of the ocean-steamers for some time, but it was not her intention to follow the traveled routes more than was necessary.
The division of the party for the two sailings was tactfully arranged by Mrs. Dan DeMille.
We sail for New York on the fastest boat," said Monty, and hurried off to learn the sailings and book his party.
When direct sailings between the Mediterranean and the Gulf of Mexico were established, their numbers increased rapidly and New Orleans became one of the leading Italian centers in the United States.
There were some sailings directly from Ireland; but most of the Irish immigrants were collected at Liverpool by agents not always scrupulous in their dealings.
Sailings of American liners were still held up pending decision about their armament.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sailings" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
