The American trade gave the first and great impetus to shipowning in Liverpool.
In estimating the financial results of our shipowning industry during the early period of the war, allowance must be made for the increased cost of working a steamer.
The drop was from a grand total, sail and steam together, of a million and a third, which then made Canada the fourth shipowning country in the world and put her ahead of many nations with more than ten times her population.
Shipowning does not show such a dramatic contrast, but the decline has been very marked.
The effect of this has been severely felt on the China coast, especially in such large shipping ports as Taku, Shanghai, and Ningpo, where there were in former days large and prosperous shipowning communities.
It was true that he came of a shipowning family--and perhaps inherited a slight tendency to see things from a shipowning point of view--but in England we did not suspect a man on such a score as that.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shipowning" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
