Shipwrights Sentence Examples

The people are excellent shipwrights and do a considerable trade in schooners built of native wood.

During nearly a quarter of a century he was engaged in negotiations with the government for the erection of a "Panopticon," for the central inspection of convicts; a plan suggested to him by a building designed by his brother Samuel, for the better supervision of his Russian shipwrights.

Any form of clinker hull, even the triple clinker of the late medieval English shipwrights, was totally unsuitable for such treatment.

St Mary's Church with box pews dating from the 15th century and a roof constructed by local shipwrights.

Members of the Navy Board tended to be professional men drawn from the service, either officers or former shipwrights.

The surveyor was also accompanied by professional barge shipwrights.

Following the imprisonment of the Govan shipwrights, official trade union representatives called for a public inquiry into their case.

St Mary 's Church with box pews dating from the 15th century and a roof constructed by local shipwrights.

It was also planned to set up a shipwrights shop and forge nearby.

Medford ships began to be famous shortly after the beginning of the 19th century, and by 1845 that town employed one quarter of all the shipwrights in the state.

The almshouse established in 1592 by Sir John Hawkins for decayed seamen and shipwrights is still extant, the building having been re-erected in the 19th century; but the fund called the Chatham Chest, originated by Hawkins and Drake in 1588, was incorporated with Greenwich Hospital in 1802.