Looking for sentences and phrases with the word Indiaman? Here are some examples.
Sentence Examples
She is the second replica of an East Indiaman after the Dutch Batavia, though from a later period.
Even Samuel Pepys, then the surveyor-victualer of the Royal Navy, was unprepared for the cargo he inspected in November 1665 aboard a captured Dutch Indiaman.
It was then British policy to transport convicts in officially naval vessels, although the Calcutta was a big converted East Indiaman with 500 people aboard.
Examples from Classical Literature
The heir to the estate was a son of Sir Felix Glyde's first cousin, an officer in command of an East Indiaman.
Some Indiaman, ballasted with guilders, you have heard of in shore.
Such were the prospects of the two as they sat together in the cabin of the Indiaman locked fast in each other's arms, and crying bitterly.
In their midst the central steeple towers proudly up like the mainmast of some great Indiaman among a fleet of coasters.
The Svecia, a heavily armed Swedish East Indiaman used by the Company mainly to trade with China, also made a few voyages to India to collect textiles and red sandalwood.
She had flirted all the way to Madras with the Captain and chief mate of the Ramchunder East Indiaman, and had a season at the Presidency with her brother and Mrs.
They are now on their passage to Bombay, in an East Indiaman.
The Glutton had been an indiaman, measuring 1400 tons, and had been purchased into the service.
Our chief anxiety was, however, on account of the risk we ran of losing the indiaman.
The superior officers of the indiaman had all been taken out of her.
He was on board the indiaman that was run down by the transport.
Those were pleasant hours I spent on board the old indiaman.
The large one was, we saw at once, an indiaman outward bound.
He was on the other side of the island when the indiaman arrived.
The stranger had been edging in nearer and nearer to the indiaman.
