It was during these years, too, that the first efforts to improve the construction of ships were made by the introduction of skilled shipwrights from the Italian ports.
The Shipwrights having finished their Work, intended to have sailed, instead of which was obliged to let go another Anchor.
Several Shipwrights and Joiners from the Yard Employed on board refitting the Gentlemen's Cabins, and making a Platform over the Tiller, etc.
I have during this time applied myself to know the several ways of building and the secrets of the best shipwrights in England and Christendom, and have likewise observed the several workings of ships in the sea in all the voyages I have been.
By these helps I have demonstratively gained the science of making of ships perfect in Art, which of necessity must be made wrought by a differing way from all the Shipwrights in the world.
Corporation of shipwrights (when there was such a company).
The 18th day of April, I was elected and sworn Master of the Corporation of Shipwrights at our common hall and meeting place at Redriff.
The relationship between the royal shipwrights and the commercial shipbuilders was at all times very close.
Mark, too, was satisfied with the result, and the very next day after this task was completed, ourshipwrights set to work to lay their keel.
In order to save materials in the cradle, the ways themselves were laid on blocks, and they were secured as well as the skill of our self-formed shipwrights could do it.
While theshipwrights were busy the men practised rowing on dry land.
Shipwrights and carpenters worked night and day, and in a wonderfully short time a fleet of 250 vessels was constructed and given to the State.
Roman carpenters and shipwrights at once set to work, studying how it was put together, and thinking out devices by which it could be improved.
For there lay The Mary of the Tower, his ship of war so strong, And he would discover, certaynely, if his shipwrights did him wrong.
They drew the naughty shipwrights up, with the kettles in their hands, And bound them round the forecastle to wait the King's commands.
It thus happened that, although I contrived to worry the dockyard superintendent into putting a few shipwrights aboard the Diane, three weeks passed, and still the brigantine was very far from being ready for sea.
The quick-witted sharp-eyed Greek was not slow to copy, and by the beginning of the next century the busy shipwrights of Corinth were building the new craft for Samians as well as for themselves.
If of Egyptian parentage, it was adapted for use on the Mediterranean waters by the shipwrights of Sidon or Tyre.
He was at Hamull on the Hoke about the hour of the tide, And saw the MARY haled into dock, the winter to abide, With all her tackle and habiliments which are the King his own; But then ran on his false shipwrights and stripped her to the bone.
King Henry VII and the Shipwrights Harry our King in England from London town is gone, And comen to Hamull on the Hoke in the countie of Suthampton.
For there lay the MARY OF THE TOWER, his ship of war so strong, And he would discover, certaynely, if his shipwrights did him wrong.
Some accompanied him even as far as the Indus, where the Cyprian shipwrights had built the fleet, in which he intended to ascend that mighty river.
Unless it be for mere defence May shipwrights fail to launch you hence, At best, the comrade of old Nick-- Some folks will smile to see you stick.
The shipwrights laughed heartily at this joke, but the laughter was even louder when Uncle Richard added, "I think you have earned your breakfast as well.
Gabriel told his uncle how he had found the shipwrights all beginning to assemble under the ship, and so he had thought he had better take command.
The shipwrights sat comfortably in the yard, just near enough to the fire to feel its warmth.
I heard the mob search for me; some said he is gone one way, some another; they were got into the yard, I heard one of the shipwrights say he is gone over the wall, and gone away by water.
The Master Dassi shipwrights and kalkers, one thousand at fourteene aspers, which amounteth by the yeere, to thirtie thousand, sixe hundred threescore pound.
The Mariers Bassi masters over the shipwrights and kalkers of the navie, nine, at 20.
In former years large frigates have been built, armed, and fitted out at Cavite and other ports, but at present the ship-building industry is in decadence, and the shipwrights capable of directing so important a job have died out.
Jessop was then a foreman of shipwrights in the dockyard, and a first-class draughtsman, full of ingenuity and mechanical knowledge.
In the practical execution of the work he was assisted by two shipwrightsfrom the king's yard at Woolwich, who worked with him during the whole time he was occupied in the erection.
By this time two of theshipwrights and five sailors had fallen.
How many boatmen and shipwrights are standing idle on the quays!
A hungry crowd ofshipwrights sharpened their chisels at the sight of that carcass of a ship.
It was as if those confoundedshipwrights had actually made a hole in her.
We made sail and tried to clew off, when the rotten work of the Tahiti shipwrightsbecame manifest.
The boat-builders and shipwrights found occupation enough for their leisure hours, in building boats for those who could afford to pay them for their labour.
The Mariers Bassi, masters over the shipwrights and caulkers of the navy, nine, at twenty aspers the piece, amounteth to three thousand fourscore and four pounds, four shillings.
Canyng, a merchant prince of Bristol, employed a hundred shipwrightsand eight hundred seamen.
The shipwrights seem to have built it like a barge or house-boat.
Some of the lingo has changed a good deal; for English seamen soon began to drop the words King Henry's shipwrights brought north from the Mediterranean.
Here they found a large lighter alongside, and they beheld in the lantern-light the silhouettes of a half-dozen shipwrights busily at work upon it, whilst the place rang with the blows of hammers and the scream of saws.
Two great ports were being opened in the vessel's side, and over one of these thus opened the shipwrights were nailing planks.
Her scratch crew could not go to battle quarters till the 8th; and the shipwrights were working madly at her up to the very moment that the first shot was fired in her fatal action on the 11th.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shipwrights" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
