By the mid-19th century Canada had become a major seafaring nation.

As a seafaring nation, Japan had an early interest in wireless (radio) communications.

But I did start to wonder if he could really call himself a true citizen of a proud, seafaring nation.

We’ve been a seafaring nation – you get to know other countries.”

He continued: "I like to think we are still the foremost seafaring nation in the world.

He said piracy calls for a multinational response from seafaring nations.

It was described as a seafaring nation of South Asia.

Spain had long been one of the great seafaring nations of Europe.

We are a seafaring nation - a state.

Significantly, their ambitions far exceed those of the world’s seafaring nations, which have no plans to send people so deep.

The Dutch, a seafaring nation of traders, have also long imported new and foreign opinions.

The greatest seafaring nation in the world began on the small rainy island of Axony.

Both were colonised by small European seafaring nations before gaining independence within 50 years of each other.

The technically superior seafaring nations were but vague thoughts of a distant past.

And, as befits the leader of a great seafaring nation, you have caught it on the ebb.

Being a seafaring nation, an important symbol in Oman is the dhow.

Spain and Portugal, Europe's two great seafaring nations of the time, set out to find the answer.

Portugal, as an Atlantic country and an historical seafaring nation, has a long tradition in the sector of fishing.

The king entered the church under an awning of fishing nets, an ancient tradition in the seafaring nation.

They lived there undisturbed until the middle 1300s; then they were discovered by a seafaring nation called the Spanish.

Any seafaring nation in the world could have claimed it; none did, because it was not seen as vital to their purposes.

The Roman Republic had never been much of a seafaring nation, but it had to learn.

We asked the artist to keep in mind the idea of two worlds meeting: Denmark a seafaring nation, and Australia, the great southern land.

In 1674 he knew that the most perplexing problem facing the great seafaring nations of the 17th century was measuring longitude.

Furthermore it is her kingdom that is a seafaring nation, looking westward into the Atlantic.