At the end of that time, it became apparent that the old shipowner had involved all of his own property, as well as that of many others, in a series of disastrous speculations.
Captain Marshall, the leading shipowner of the town, whose fortune and influence lay behind the building of the Viking, had offered him the ship that summer as she stood on the stocks.
The shipowner reached to take out some papers from his breast-pocket, then stopped.
If Larssen of his own accord offered to extend the truce until May 20th, it must mean that the shipowner was aware of his shaky position and ready to suggest compromise.
The contrast between the broad frame of the shipowner and the delicate, nervous, under-sized physique of his boy was striking in its irony.
When he concluded on the signature wrung out of the shipowner at the last moment, Elaine cried her relief: "Then you're not beaten down!
Olive turned on the shipowner with a sudden wild fury, her eyes shooting fire and her lips quivering.
The shipowner rapidly unlocked his desk and drew out a printed document which he placed in the young man's hands.
The shipowner surveyed the other man through half-closed lids, weighing up how far this declaration might be a genuine expression of opinion and how far a mere excuse to cover some hidden motive.
The shipowner decided that he must find this man and discover if he knew anything.
When Rivière at length reached Hampstead Heath, it was to find that the shipowner had just left the house.
The shipowner would be back in London, and no doubt would have heard from Olive something of the changed situation.
A letter of his had brought the shipowner hastening to Paris to see him.
Sit down, Matheson," said the shipowner calmly, when his antagonist had reached the horseshoe desk.
It seemed an unnecessary precaution, but the shipowner never neglected the tiniest detail when he had a big scheme to engineer.
If the shipowner does not see to it that a safe type of boat is provided, then the number of persons to be accommodated in boats which do not come up to the proportions deemed safe by the board of trade should be very considerably curtailed.
They can also, if invited by the shipowner (but not otherwise), exercise supervision under rule 12.
And led away by Camotte, the rich shipowner of Boston went out spluttering and perspiring as before.
Next moment the great American shipowner came in puffing and blowing.
As he spoke, the worthy shipowner pulled out an enormous pocketbook from his coat and opened it.
In the case of a shipment by a general ship the bill of lading is the evidence and memorandum of the contract between the shipowner and the shipper.
Without any express provision for it the shipowner has by the common law a lien for freight.
The rights and obligations of the shipowner and the freighter depend, as in the case of all parties to contracts, upon the terms of the agreement entered into between them.
But, as we have already explained at the beginning of this article, the shipowner continues in possession of his vessel by his servant the master, who remains responsible to his owner for the safety and proper navigation of the ship.
It is usually signed by the master of the vessel, but very commonly by the agents of the shipowneror sometimes of the charterers of the vessel.
There is indeed no rule of English law which prevents a shipowner from exempting himself by the terms of the bill of lading from liability for damage and loss of every kind, whether arising from unseaworthiness or any other cause whatsoever.
In such a case the vessel will be chartered by the shipowner to the shipper.
The want of loose capital weighed on them oppressively, but they boasted of Shipowner Monsen's money--there were still rich people in the town!
They hanged the rich shipowner Monsen to the church steeple, and he dangled there a terror and a warning to all.
They shouted down insults; they reminded him how in his presumption he had ruined his family, and driven his daughter to suicide; and they cast in his face his brutal attack on the rich shipowner Monsen, the benefactor of the town.
Shipowner Monsen was behind the whole affair, together with the brewer from the mainland, who had taken the hotel over in payment of outstanding debts.
But the shipowner did nothing he was expected to do.
Yesterday I went to the city to see a shipowner whose acquaintance I made when he was a master in the West India trade.
By the help of your friends, I shall have a title or two for acquaintances before I leave London; and when my money is gone, there is a shipowner I know of who will give me employment, if I have not obtained preferment.
A shipowner was about to send to sea an emigrant-ship.
The shipowner might say, 'I am perfectly certain that my ship is sound, but still I feel it my duty to have her examined, before trusting the lives of so many people to her.
Such rank--such a position as places her on a level with the highest ladies of the land, though the daughter of plain folk, with a shipowner for a father and a sailor's daughter for a mother.
He well may--Molly is the greatest shipowner of Lynn.
A shipownergenerally is glad to pay a broker a commission for digging him up business for his ships--particularly when freights are dull.
For the American shipowner it is not a contest of intelligence, skill, industry, and thrift against similar qualities in his competitor; it is a contest against his competitors and his competitors' governments and his own government also.
We should give back to the shipowner what we take away from him for the purpose of maintaining that standard; and unless we do give it back we shall continue to go without ships.
Against these advantages of his competitor the American shipowner has to contend; and it is manifest that the subsidized ship can afford to carry freight at cost for a period long enough to drive him out of business.
Statesman: The shipowner has arrived at a hasty conclusion.
By law I am obliged to pay the French shipowner 30; he takes 10 francs out of my pocket.
Shipmaster: Well, let us raise the surtaxe, and let the shipowner who now exacts 30 francs from the public for his freight, charge 40.
Let us heap taxes upon him, and the shipowner will be satisfied.
So saying, the worthyshipowner quitted the two allies, and proceeded in the direction of the Palais de Justice.
Morrel had fully anticipated, and which Cocles paid as punctually as the bills which the shipowner had accepted.
The worthy shipowner knew, from Penelon's recital, of the captain's brave conduct during the storm, and tried to console him.
Mercedes and the old man rushed to meet the shipowner and greeted him at the door.
I am too well aware that though a subordinate, like myself, is bound to acquaint the shipowner with everything that occurs, there are many things he ought most carefully to conceal from all else.
Still confidence was not restored to all minds, and the general opinion was that the complete ruin of the unfortunate shipowner had been postponed only until the end of the month.
And if it were, Mercedes, poor and lone as you are, you suit me as well as the daughter of the first shipowner or the richest banker of Marseilles!
The shipowner has a lien on the goods for their own freight and charges, but not for a general balance.
The main obligations upon the shipowner are to provide a seaworthy vessel, carry without undue delay, and deliver the goods in the same condition as they were shipped.
I know no other duke than my shipowner or his correspondent, which is all the same as--ah!
Yesterday morning my shipowner at Rochelle asked me if my cargo was complete.
At the moment of each taking possession, the shipowner says to the citizen, "Very well; the transaction is completed, and nothing can prove its perfect equity better than our free and voluntary consent.
In part it was an efficient cause, inasmuch as it threw the shipowner entirely on his own resources for his existence.
Of course I don't deny that; but the shipowner or curer runs a great risk in advancing goods on the security of fish which have to be caught.
Then they drew the money from the shipowner after I left.
A fisherman sometimes, at or before settlement, gives an order on the shipowner in favour of the proprietor?
Surcouf eventually settled down as a shipbuilder and shipowner at St. Malo.
But the sailor smoked on, stolidly heedless of a sudden lapse in the conversation, and the shipowner was compelled to start afresh.
Never did shipowner behave more queerly when faced by a disaster of like magnitude, involving, as did the Andromeda's loss, not only political issues of prime importance, but also the death of a near relative.
A few merchants seem to have made fortunes in the shipping trade, and among them may be mentioned the famous William Canynge of Bristol, who was probably the greatest private shipowner in England at the end of the reign of Henry VI.
The East India Company was by far the largest mercantile shipowner and ship-hirer in the country.
A shipowner can't be too careful as to the sort of skipper he gets.
I appeal to you as an Englishman and a shipowner brought to the verge of ruin by an illegal conspiracy of your beggarly sailors, and all you condescend to do for me is to tell me to go and get a partner!
As a shipowner everyone had conspired to make him a nobody.
How the fellow came to be a shipowner at the same time was quite a tale.
Dufresne was to put him in the way of earning fifty thousand francs with a wealthy shipowner who had just arrived in Paris and was seeking investments for his money, with which he did not know what to do.
In this connection we have the following curious story: A brusque but wealthy shipowner of Sunderland once entered the London office of Mr. Lindsay on business.
The Sunderland shipowner intimated that he would, and was ushered into an adjacent room, where a person was busily employed copying some statistics.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shipowner" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
