shipwright

IPA: ʃˈɪpraɪt

Examples of "shipwright" in Sentences

“And as shipwright and able assistant,” she laughed back.
Only one man could put it right—the shipwright Champdoré, who “cleverly mended the rudder.”
You enlist him as one of your companions and a shipwright should be a very useful member of your crew.
The Catholic priest and Protestant pastor lived there, the surgeon Deschamps, and the skilled shipwright Champdoré.
In the harbor, shipwright Champdoré repaired the damaged rudder while Champlain surveyed the anchorage and made a chart.
It was in her blood, of course; that shipwright grandfather of hers was probably the last of a long line of merchant seamen.
He decided to make repairs underway and took along the shipwright Champdoré, several artisans, a “store of planks,” and a shallop.70
They know me at the Running Hart, and they gave me to wait at table a boy that I know something of, whose uncle is a shipwright in my yard.
These men appeared in the records of many voyages to America.26 Others with professional expertise included Pierre Angibault, sieur de Champdoré, a skilled shipwright and amateur pilot.
If he, for instance, had a shipwright build him a ship for the price of 2 ounces of gold, he might write out a note which would say, "Pay Mr. Shipwright 2 ounces of gold out of my gold on deposit at Mr. Goldsmiths's storeroom."