Sentences with 'steamships'
Example sentences and phrases with the word steamships and other words derived from it.
• « Simultaneously, steamships were transforming long-distance trade. The first one sailed in 1816, going twice as fast as the fastest sailing ship. »
• « It soon became economically viable to ship grain from the United States or Russia across the oceans to reach European markets using the fast steamships. »
• « The first transatlantic crossing was a race between two steamships from England to New York in 1838; soon, sailing ships became what they are today: archaic novelties. »