steam liner

They look to the left, as if receiving a message, while a large steam liner looms over them to their right.

"It went all the way up to the phenomenal steam liners, the big ocean voyage cruise ships."

She smiled at the nurse, an Irish girl with hips like a steam liner and merry blue eyes. '

Steam liners don't exist any more, so all of the long sea journeys had to be on container ships or freighters.

A great steam liner belching smoke from its funnels went churning toward the ocean, the British ensign hanging limp in the rain.

While the company had a virtual monopoly on some lines, it faced fierce competition on others, mainly by other shipping companies operating (inland) steam liners.

The ocean voyage had helped; she had been much taken by their luxurious staterooms aboard the new steam liner theUnited States.

Eventually, however, commercial steam liners began to work regular international schedules and received contracts from governments to carry mail as well as passengers and high-value cargo.

The brewery was founded in Burslem Stoke-on-Trent in 1985 and takes its name from the ill-fated steam liner Titanic.

Between 1941 and 1946, Harrison was the ship's doctor on board the Demodocus, a steam liner ferrying supplies to Allied forces across the Indian Ocean.

Belgrano was a French sail and steam liner, belonging to the Compagnie des Chargeurs Réunis.

From 1873, steam liners were overtaking the famous sailing ships and although the McCorkell Line continued to carry passengers until 1897, the main activity now became cargo.

In the beginning they leave their mid-Western hometown of Zenith, board a steam liner in New York and cross the Atlantic Ocean.

In 1914, the Komagata Maru, a steam liner carrying 376 passengers from Punjab, India (all were British subjects) arrived in Vancouver.

On 16 September 1940 the British steam liner 'Aska' was bombed by a German aircraft south of Gigha whilst carrying French troops from Gambia.

The name 'Steamer' originates from the use of the chair on the decks of the old steam liners, and the durability and comfort of this chair were paramount.

The steam liners Regele Carol I, România, Împăratul Traian and Dacia were converted into auxiliary cruisers.

In 1908 the British warship Gladiator sank in Portsmouth Harbour after colliding with the American steam liner St Paul, with the loss of 27 lives.

Samuel Cunard of Nova Scotia developed the successful Atlantic Steam Liner service in the 1830s with the SS Royal William.

The liner was chosen as a representation of iconic steam liners such as RMS Titanic, though the Columbia is not a specific recreation of the Titanic.

From here she could see the full length of Brunei's fine steam liner: the polished deck, the skylights, the airy masts with their loops of wire rigging, the single, squat funnel amidships.

You must imagine that the Ship about me had something of the shape of a steam liner, but hugely blown up-its lenticular keel was miles long-and yet it floated above the landscape with the ease of a cloud.

Odyssey has located the wrecks of at least three British vessels – HMS Sussex, HMS Victory and the RMS Laconia, a steam liner sunk in the First World War.

The work, which can be viewed as a comment on immigration and acculturation, features four model boats: a First Nations longboat, a cargo ship, the steam liner Komagata Maru, and George Vancouver's ship HMS Discovery.

The Stoomvaart Maatschappij Nederland (Steam liners Company), Royal Rotterdam Lloyd, Royal Packet Boat Service and Nederlands-Indische Tankstoomboot-Maatschappij (Dutch-Indies Tank steamers) were prepared to pay half the foundation costs.