Steamship

Definition

steamship /'sti:mʃÇp / n မီးသေဘၤာ။

Examples

1. ‘Beginning in the 1860s
2. China became a major importer of European naval technology; and by 1882 the Chinese navy consisted of approximately fifty steamships.’
3. ‘Further along the coast
4. we dive the only real wreck on this side of Ibiza
5. a well-broken steamship that was driven sideways into a rocky cove.’
6. ‘A large amount of capital was required to transform forges into modern iron and steel industries
7. equip the shipyards to build steamships
8. and move from small workshops to modern factories.’
9. ‘The four deaths in the Forth area included a double fatality when two divers descended 65 metres to a wrecked steamship off Dunbar
10. East Lothian.’
11. ‘She was a three-masted steamship that went down while sailing from Boston to Liverpool carrying 400 cattle.’
12. ‘The first of three races was held on September 7
13. amid a spectator fleet of some two hundred steamships and sixty thousand sightseers.’
14. ‘In addition Consolidated Lake Superior Corp. operated not only lake vessels
15. but also ocean going steamships and passenger boats as well
16. totaling 16 vessels.’
17. ‘Certainly it is known that in 1901 he was based in Hong Kong and he refloated the steamship München which had run aground on Yap
18. Caroline Islands.’
19. ‘Before the advent of steamships
20. there were merchant sailors who seemed to be a ‘higher’ and somehow more regal member of their class.’
21. ‘On the way north from Sumburgh Head to Lerwick we had dived the wreck of the Murrayfield
22. a small steamship that ran onto rocks off Mousa in dense fog in 1942.’
23. ‘Then
24. steamships plowed the Atlantic filled with both wealthy patrons inhabiting lavish suites and thousands of European immigrants who
25. wedged into tight quarters below
26. really paid the costs of the trip.’
27. ‘Among the ships are a fleet of wooden steamships
28. built to serve in World War I but then abandoned and brought here to be salvaged.’
29. ‘Under a blue sky we watch the steamship and fast ferry crossing to the mainland and the windsurfers trying their luck.’
30. ‘As steamships gradually replaced sailing vessels the demand for ropes was reduced and by 1890 the flax mill was closed.’
31. ‘Large steamships were supplanting smaller sailing vessels as the main carriers of slaves.’
32. ‘The Suez Canal
33. opened in 1869
34. shortened the route east for steamships
35. although sailing ships still went by the Cape.’
36. ‘The next morning they bought an old steamship which was in the port of Baltimore
37. and renamed it the Exodus.’
38. ‘Here
39. the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum features exhibits on boat building
40. Chesapeake Bay craft
41. steamships
42. and decoy carving.’
43. ‘Telegraph lines were often built alongside the railways
44. and steamships laid the submarine cables that took the telegraph network across the seas and oceans.’
45. ‘Just up from Kirkhaven harbour
46. a series of rocks known as The Pillow boasts wreckage thought to belong to the steel steamship Scotland
47. which ran aground in 1916.’