fishing-vessels

Of the BRITANNIA and Captain Grant he knew nothing, but he was certain that the disaster had not happened on Amsterdam Island, nor on the islet called St. Paul, for whalers and fishing-vessels went there constantly, and must have heard of it.

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They were also daring voyagers, and their fishing-vessels had been among the earliest to visit the New World, where their name for cod-fish, baccalaos, had been given to Newfoundland, which bears that title on the oldest maps.

French Pathfinders in North America William Henry Johnson

The subventions to American general cargo carriers, or the "tramp" type of ships, and deep-sea fishing-vessels, steam or sail, were fixed at these rates: those engaged in the foreign trade for a full year, five dollars per gross ton; so engaged for nine months and less than a year, four dollars; for six months, two dollars.

Manual of Ship Subsidies Edwin M. Bacon

Company was formed with the aim of planting colonies in America but it was not a great success, and the extortionate claims of the members to a monopoly of very important privileges brought them into violent collision with the more flourishing Massachusetts Company, as well as with owners of certain fishing-vessels, whom they called 'interlopers.'

Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts Rosalind Northcote

"Only I did call to mind that there be many fishing-vessels in the harbor."

A Boy's Ride Gulielma Zollinger

We were not single in misfortune, as thirteen or fourteen fishing-vessels were in like manner surprised the same evening.

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Within the stone quadrangle we found clustered a motley fleet of wrecks and fishing-vessels; the nets, flung out to dry in the night air, hung like shrouds from the mastheads; here and there a figure bestrode a deck, a rough shape, that seemed endowed with a double gift of life, so still and noiseless was the town.

In and out of Three Normady Inns Anna Bowman Dodd

The fishing-fleets of all the world were visited, and as a result a schooner was built and called the _Grampus_, which became a model for all that was most to be desired in fishing-vessels.

The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries Francis Rolt-Wheeler 1918

They entered on the ground-floor, seeing to the left a number of hatching troughs, to the right models of nets and fishing-vessels, at the far end a small aquarium, while in the center was a tank in which were the two fur seals that the boy had heard about in the Pribilof Islands.

The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries Francis Rolt-Wheeler 1918

"One of the very best things it accomplished, I think, was an investigation into the cause of the heavy loss of life among the crews of New England fishing-vessels."

The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries Francis Rolt-Wheeler 1918