shipwright

How To Use shipwright In A Sentence

• The even skin of the carvel hull enabled shipwrights to cut gunports close to the waterline.
• They lacked the long sleek lines of the local boats that went from tree to sea with such grace, under the shipwright's spell, turning the waves aside like coulters and combines, ploughing and harvesting.
• They include fitters, shipwrights and electricians.
• Once, this was a stout ship, with oak futtocks and floor timbers, fastened with iron nails, built with saw and adz and the calloused hands of shipwrights now long dead. Md. center studies ship's remains found at World Trade Center site
• Ships of the Age of Discovery were built from the mind of a shipwright, instead of blueprints.
• By contrast, a Scottish artiste might play to sodden Glasgow shipwrights, a restrained middle class audience and a temperance rally in the same week.
• Clinker shipbuilding was a genuine craft, in which the shipwright remained close to his materials.
• The even skin of the carvel hull enabled shipwrights to cut gunports close to the waterline.
• There was slave labor available, but shipwrights, machinists, sailmakers, and all the skilled trades required in shipbuilding were in critically short supply.
• In the reign of Henry VIII. the shipwrights of this country began to build ships which combined something of the strength, and capacity of the dromond, with the length and fineness of the galley. On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien.