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Example sentences for "seagoing"

Lexicographically close words:
seafarer; seafarers; seafaring; seafood; seafowl; seagull; seagulls; seah; seakale; seal
  1. The Ichthyosaurs seem to have been quite seagoing creatures, but the Plesiosaurs were a type of animal that has no cognate form to-day.

  2. Seagoing vessels can easily come to King's Bridge, a point on Ogeechee River, fourteen and a half miles due west of Savannah, from which point we have roads leading to all our camps.

  3. It is apparent that the Navy Department was pressed for funds, due to the very extensive shipbuilding programs on Lakes Erie, Ontario, and Champlain in addition to the seagoing vessels being built in some of the coastal ports.

  4. And besides the building of a seagoing fleet, we have to build our inland water crafts and fishing fleets.

  5. The latter was chosen, doubtless because nautical knowledge and seagoing vessels were alike wanting.

  6. Brig--A seagoing vessel having two masts and square rigged.

  7. This was an early seagoing vessel of a colonist, but whether built in Virginia, or purchased, is not stated.

  8. Ship--A sailing vessel having three or more masts, square rigged, the largest seagoing vessel of the period.

  9. Skinner envisioned a widespread distribution of Negroes throughout the Coast Guard's seagoing vessels.

  10. Finally in 1944 Forrestal began to experiment with integration in seagoing assignments.

  11. As a natural consequence of the decision to place Negroes in the auxiliary fleet, the Bureau of Naval Personnel opened training in seagoing rates to Negroes on an integrated basis.

  12. Seagoing torpedo boats or destroyers are indispensable, not only for making night attacks by surprise upon an enemy, but even in battle for finishing already crippled ships.

  13. It should be a real auxiliary to the naval seagoing peace establishment, and offer material to be drawn on at once for manning our ships in time of war.

  14. Seagoing torpedo-boat destroyers should be substituted for some of the smaller torpedo boats.

  15. He was the first customer on hand when a Schenectady firm specializing in electronic apparatus for seagoing ships opened up for business.

  16. To be sure, no seagoing ship would have sections of hydroponic wall-garden installed, nor would an auxiliary schooner normally have six pairs of closed-circuit television cameras placed outside for a view in each and every direction.

  17. Jim had pointed him out to me once as a respectable petty trader owning a small seagoing native craft, who had showed himself "one of the best at the taking of the stockade.

  18. I drove back to town the same afternoon, taking with me Tamb' Itam and the other Malay, in whose seagoing craft they had escaped in the bewilderment, fear, and gloom of the disaster.

  19. He was on one occasion leaving Guernsey for Southampton in the clumsy seagoing smack of those days, when, on the night before embarking, he dreamt that on his way to the harbour he crossed the churchyard and fell into an open grave.

  20. They are masts with yard-arms, masts of seagoing vessels, the masts of the invader's fleet.

  21. In war-vessels for service on that wonderful network of rivers that make up the waterways of the Mississippi Valley, the South was not so deficient as in ships of the seagoing class.

  22. A flotilla of yachts, seagoing tugs, and merchantmen was bought and refitted.

  23. As the apprentices become proficient and their services are required, they are transferred to the seagoing vessels.

  24. To call him a seagoing soldier is more nearly correct.

  25. Only a seagoing man knows how to take a ship's ladder with speed.

  26. Not often do seagoing people get the chance to see a fleet of merchant steamers cruising the wide ocean.

  27. What some of these surgeons don't know about seagoing can be found in about six hundred pages of Knight's "Modern Seamanship," but that does not matter much.

  28. Let them look after the casualties; there are capable young naval officers to look after the seagoing end.

  29. She then stated she wanted a completely equipped seagoing laboratory for work along the French coast.

  30. October 22: Heard indirectly that the Tharios had managed to charter a seagoing tug on shares with friends.

  31. A ship or seagoing vessel propelled by the power of steam; a steamer.

  32. A port on the seashore, or one accessible for seagoing vessels.

  33. For more than thirty years thereafter the coal mining industry of the Puget Sound country ranked closely after the lumber business and a large fleet of seagoing vessels was constantly employed in the trade.

  34. A seagoing submarine of such character would also carry rapid-fire guns of sufficient calibre to destroy surface merchantmen.

  35. Starting back before dawn in a little boat, I saw, just as the sun was coming up over the swamps where the river begins to divide, the hulk of a great seagoing vessel against the morning sky.

  36. The small radius of the end curves is particularly marked in some of the seagoing porpoise-hunting canoes of the Passamaquoddy.

  37. With few exceptions these Arctic skin boats are wholly seagoing craft.

  38. While these bark canoes had some superficial resemblance in general proportions to the Eskimo kayaks, it is necessary to point out that they did not, particularly in Alaska, have the same hull form as the seagoing kayaks in that area.

  39. The Irish, in particular, employed large seagoing skin boats as late as the reign of Queen Elizabeth of England; a drawing of one preserved in the Pepysian Library was reproduced in the Mariner's Mirror (vol.

  40. It has been thought that the flat-bottom seagoing kayak form may have existed in the Canadian Northwest, at the mouth of the Mackenzie; a kayak so identified is in the collections of the U.

  41. In design they are related to the coracle of ancient Britain rather than to a seagoing skin boat of the Irish or Eskimo type.

  42. The Alaskan seagoing skin kayaks are all multi-chine forms that approximate a "round-bottom" hull.

  43. Hence the Micmac in New Brunswick used the big-river model and the seagoing type.

  44. These canoes were well-built and their ends resemble those of the seagoing kayaks used at the mouth of the Mackenzie, but these for at least the last 70 years of their use were round-bottomed.

  45. Seagoing skin boats have not been common outside the Arctic in historical times.

  46. Defn: A ship or seagoing vessel propelled by the power of steam; a steamer.

  47. Defn: A port on the seashore, or one accessible for seagoing vessels.

  48. Ship canal, a canal suitable for the passage of seagoing vessels.

  49. I can't express in words the remarkable appearance made by some of our seagoing chorus girls when they attempt to assume the light and airy graces of the real article.

  50. To make matters worse, and to add to the excitement, the officer's young wife was one of those who joined the crowd, and she kept appealing in her agony of mind to the seagoing men around to save her husband's life.

  51. Constant voyaging, dispatch at the ports of lading and discharge, seagoing through all weathers, make huge the total of their tonnage, but their individual cargoes rank small against the mammoth burdens of the oversea merchantmen.

  52. It was not a seagoing risk that could be met; no adequate protection consistent with the lightship's mission could be devised.


  53. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "seagoing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.