The museum's centerpiece was an ironclad turret ship that revolutionized naval warfare in the late 1800s.

Every evening the guard ship at the harbor sounded its horn as it monitored incoming vessels.

The old ship railway groaned as the cradle hauled the battered trawler up for repairs.

The charterer exceeded the ship's days, so demurrage charges began to accrue.

Among the captain's papers was a ship letter addressed to a distant relative, carried across the ocean by a merchant vessel rather than an official mail packet.

During the cramped Atlantic crossing, several sailors contracted ship fever, forcing the captain to quarantine the infected crew.

We will make ship at dawn to avoid the approaching storm.

During the long voyage, several sailors succumbed to ship-fever, forcing the captain to change course.

Despite the captain's orders, the crew began abandoning ship as the hull started to list.

When the fires spread below deck, the captain and crew abandoned ship minutes later.