Vessel in example sentence

Acting on this warning no one answered a word, but after we had gone a little ahead, and the vessel was now lying to leeward, suddenly they fired two guns, and apparently both loaded with chain-shot, for with one they cut our mast in half and brought down both it and the sail into the sea, and the other, discharged at the same moment, sent a ball into our vessel amidships, staving her in completely, but without doing any further damage.

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The captain of a New Zealand vessel who was just down there is reporting a significant decline in the number of the Ross Sea killer whales, who are directly dependent on the Antarctic toothfish as their main source of food.

I felt like I was a vessel of the future of humanity.

I spent a week at sea on a research vessel.

She had a bleeding up in the brain, and that's been fixed with a little stent, a metal clamp that's tightening up the vessel.

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