Yes, more and more; and in the course of time, most shipowners followed our example.
The energy of the English shipping interest was thoroughly aroused, and the shipowners and shipbuilders of Scotland came speedily to the front.
The British shipowners have at last sat down to play a fair and open game with the Americans, and, by Jove!
English merchants and shipowners did not, of course, resign their share in the China trade without a struggle; but they were fighting on the defensive, and under the disadvantages incidental to that condition of warfare.
Shipowners had themselves made certain provisions, but only of very limited scope.
Scurvy in the present day is a disgrace to shipowners and masters; and if public opinion is insufficient to protect the seamen, the legislature will undoubtedly step in and do so.
Our Board of Trade has nothing to do with the food scales of ships, but Mr. Gray hints that the Legislature will have to interfere unless shipowners look to it themselves.
Well, as soon as the Liverpool shipowners saw the line was going to be a success, they came over to Galway and bribed the pilot to run the ship on the only rock there was in the harbour, and there was the end of the Galway Transatlantic Line.
Sailors were sent to sea in ships heavily insured—and great was the loss of valuable life—in order that some shipowners might reap a hellish profit.
The Board of Trade desires, therefore, to direct the especial attention of shipowners and their agents to the necessity of seeing that the charts taken or sent on board their ships are corrected to the time of sailing.
I do not believe that the most sacred ties of personal friendship and blood relationship with influential people can save either shipowners or coalowners or army contractors to the end.
The blockade of Britain, by the British shipownersis scarcely less effective than the blockade of Germany by Britain.
A temporary nationalisation of land transit has been improvised, and only the vast, deep-rooted, political influence of the shipowners and coalowners have staved off the manifestly necessary step of nationalising shipping and coal.
Olympic," 1911] It may be well to deal at once with the allegation that shipowners have made excessive profits.
In view of the necessity for strengthening the hands of shipowners and enabling them to carry on in the difficult times before them, the Government is making a mistake in not giving more encouragement to shipowners.
One remarkable change has taken place which would have shocked the shipowners of fifty years ago; steamers no longer carry sails and the tendency is to do away with masts.
The long voyage trades have been built up by shipowners at a heavy cost, and are also the creation of generations.
The shipowners who remained in business, and this comprised the great majority, were deprived of 80 per cent.
The urgent need for checking imports of a bulky character was, I know, urged upon the Government by shipowners who foresaw the scramble for freight space, but the Government failed to respond to these representations.
NOW AND AFTER It is unfortunate that no adequate statement has been forthcoming setting before the public the important services shipowners are performing for the country, and the serious position of the shipping industry.
The shipowners gather in Paris, the world's bankers in Madrid or Berne, and what is in effect some vital piece of world regulation is devised in the smoking room of some Brussels hotel.
Almost immediately after the repeal of the British Navigation Laws the revolution in shipbuilding to which I have referred had its commencement, and we have seen how British shipowners availed themselves of it.
Behold the warehouses, repairing shops, foundries, and other various industries connected with these enterprises, and the shipownersengaged in promoting them pursuing a legitimate business.
Then search for the American shipowners engaged in trade beyond the seas.
We are glad to be able to say that there are many liberal and careful shipowners who do all in their power to provide for the safety of their passengers by equipping their vessels with boats far in excess of the number required by statute.
The first is that some shipowners recognized the insufficiency of the requirements of the board of trade, and voluntarily exceeded those requirements by providing larger boat accommodation than the old rules and table exacted.
Speaking generally, recourse to this rule (12) by shipowners has been so insignificant that the rule itself may be regarded as of no practical account.
Men who had capital to employ in this hazardous business used to meet at fixed hours when shipowners and merchants could negotiate with them.
Recent extensions of marine insurance in England have mostly been in the direction of giving to shipowners protection against liabilities to third parties.
A new and extensive set of liabilities has been thrown on shipowners by the Workmen's Compensation Act of 1906; the liabilities in this case vary with the wages of the workmen concerned.
The shipowners formed an oligarchy in Hydra; the captains and crews of their ships, though they shared the profits of each voyage, were excluded from any share in the government of the island.
The Russian Government permitted hundreds of Greek shipowners to hoist its own flag, and so changed the footing of Greek merchantmen in every port of the Ottoman Empire.
The actual loss to American shipowners could not have been less than ten millions of dollars.
Nor did the President hesitate to put whole communities under the ban when individual shipowners were suspected of engaging in illicit trade.
Cut off from their natural markets, American shipowners were forced either to leave their vessels to rot at their wharves or to seek new markets.
The sailors and shipowners of Portsmouth burned Jay and Grenville in effigy, together with a miniature ship of seventy tons.
He, of all the shipowners that I am acquainted with, is certain to know of a good man.
He alighted at the offices of a firm of shipowners in Fenchurch Street, and was immediately confronted by the very person he had called to see.
Cilia Braaten was a woman who could hold her own, and was regarded as one of the cleverest shipowners on the fjord, closing charters herself, with or without a broker.
Klementsen had to put on his spectacles and study the figures earnestly; which done, the two newly pledged shipowners solemnly declared "it looks like very good business.
Your smart shipowners sitting all day in their offices and looking out places on the map, you suppose they know more about it than me that's been thirty years navigating on my own all over the torrential globe.
Soren had no reason to regret having given the administration of the household and the business into her care; for their fortunes throve steadily, and Cilia was, as mentioned, one of the smartest shipowners in the fjord.
Both, however, undertake the furtherance of commerce and navigation through "State contributions," in the form of loans to shipowners from Government funds.
Doubting its renewal shipowners had sometime before ceased to increase their fleets.
EN] In Norway the laws put no restriction upon shipowners as to purchase in any market.
BV] The effect of this law appears to have been a division of the interests of shipowners and shipbuilders.
Another provision, as a special encouragement for American shipowners to enter the Philippine trade, added a subvention of thirty per cent above the regular rate, or six and a half dollars a ton.
To overcome this difficulty a plan was worked out whereby shipowners and other persons of means furnished the passage money to immigrants in return for their promise, or bond, to work for a term of years to repay the sum advanced.
This was such a drastic law that shipowners declared themselves unable to meet foreign competition under its terms, owing to the low labor standards of other countries.
They calculated that no less than forty millions all told had been paid to shipowners in profits.
As, unlike the Liffey at Dublin or the Thames at London, the Mersey at Liverpool is over a mile wide, and as most of the coal heavers were Irishmen, this move of the shipowners was to keep our men from voting.
On election days in Liverpool there were shipowners who made it a practice of getting their vessels coaled in the river.
Being free agents, they were filled with fury, and mobbed shipowners to send them out again.
Even the shipowners of England could teach him nothing about profits.
Especially in New England, the shipownerstried in every way to break the law.
The shipowners could no longer make great profits.
Its shipowners and merchants became rich and numerous, while there were almost no shipowners or merchants in Virginia.
The British shipowners called upon their government to put an end to this American commerce.
At this time the Dutch were the greatest traders and shipowners in the world.
England was a good customer of the colonies, and Boston shipowners did a thriving trade with oil from New Bedford or Nantucket to London.
Marseilles was the greatest supporter of this intercourse with Egypt; and in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries she reached a very high position, which she owed to her shipowners and traders.
Considerable profits were realised by the shipowners and merchants, who, like Jacques Coeur, employed ships for the purpose of carrying on these large and lucrative commercial operations.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shipowners" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
