When the farmer lads came down to the sea no more in adequate numbers, the whaleships were forced to fill their crews far from home, and to take what material they could get.
The captain, with the starboard boat's crew, went ashore, and the ship made short boards to await his return, the Pandora and two whaleships from New Bedford in company.
Several more whaleships were lying at the wharves, some of them dismantled, and stripped to a girtline, others partly rigged for sea, and two or three hove down for coppering.
It was in the days before the fighting-ship went into Kiti Harbour and burnt the seven whaleships as they lay at anchor{*} that Red-Hair the White Man lived at Jakoits.
The two whaleships had ridden out the gale in safety, and the Europa was already under weigh.
The brig heeled over, then swung quickly round to her anchor, while the crew, every man at his station, sought through the inky blackness that followed the rain squall to see how the whaleships fared.
I overcame the natives' hostility, and made this one of the safest islands in the group forwhaleships to call at.
Among the girls in the boat were two from Ocean Island, being of the party landed from the whaleships at Chabral harbour.
These fierce and warlike islanders made most determined efforts to cut off the whaleships Dolly Primrose and Heavenly City.
About an hour later the mate of one of the whaleships came on board to have dinner with me, and told me that Hayston had given Miller a terrible thrashing in his own house, in the presence of his backers and the American captains.
Two whaleships had arrived, bringing half a dozen white men, and who had a retinue of nearly a hundred natives from Ocean and Pleasant Islands.
Some of the young men who had made voyages in whaleships had heard of my companionship with Captain Hayston.
He said there were no white men now at Jakoits; furthermore, that when the Leonora was sighted, Miller had gone off to the four whaleships and had a long talk with the captains.
After which Hayston washed his hands, and went on board one of the whaleships to dinner.
From the first American whaleships that visited us he bought two fine whaleboats and all the necessary gear, and then later on engaged one of the best whalemen in the South Seas to superintend the business.
At the head of the bay there was an empty house, which had been built by the crews of the whaleshipsfrequenting the Galapagos as a sort of rest-house for the men sent to catch tortoises.
Ten days after the whaleships had sailed, the schooner was ready for sea.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "whaleships" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
