sailing-vessels

Detroit river, and to look at the throng of magnificent steamers and small sailing-vessels lying along them, sometimes two or three deep, one would suppose oneself at an English seaport.

The Englishwoman in America 2007

The bar may at springs and floods be easily crossed by sailing-vessels, but, being far from the land, it is always dangerous for boats.

A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries 2004

A few sailing-vessels, on the road to India, were making for the Cape of Good Hope.

Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea 2003

August it was generally agreed that an assault unit of about 7,000 men should be conveyed to this area in 200 fast motor-boats and 100 motor sailing-vessels.

Operation Sea Lion Wheatley, Ronald 1958

The majority having left by 14 September, by the 19th all the 100 motor sailing-vessels required for Le Havre had sailed from the Weser estuary; none had, however, arrived, and they were then distributed in transit ports between Borkum, the most westerly of the German Frisian Islands, and Le Havre.

Operation Sea Lion Wheatley, Ronald 1958

There were also a hundred motor sailing-vessels which can most conveniently be mentioned in this group.

Operation Sea Lion Wheatley, Ronald 1958

Captain Scheurlen, commanding the Le Havre Group, wrote more charitably that the captains of the motor sailing-vessels 'threw themselves heart and soul into the business with great enthusiasm'; their crews 'were almost entirely boys under 17 years of age, though they were very strictly trained'.

Operation Sea Lion Wheatley, Ronald 1958

The position regarding the remaining vessels — the motorboats and the motor sailing-vessels — is not so clear.

Operation Sea Lion Wheatley, Ronald 1958

Lastly, if only half the motor-boats and none of the small group of motor sailing-vessels had reached their final destinations by the

Operation Sea Lion Wheatley, Ronald 1958

But as our Atlantic trade is seventy six per cent. of the whole, and as our trade elsewhere than on the Atlantic is more than one third carried by sailing-vessels, it is evident how largely our steamship ocean carrying trade has been allowed to fall into the hands of foreigners.

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