While on a trip to England in 1810, Newburyport merchant Francis Cabot Lowell was allowed to tour the British textile factories, but not take notes.

While serving abroad, Adams married Louisa Catherine Johnson, the daughter of an American merchant, in a ceremony at the church of All Hallows-by-the-Tower, London.

While battles at sea were rare, they would occasionally occur when Viking ships attempted to board European merchant vessels in Scandinavian waters.

While in Italy, he entered the household of the Florentine merchant banker Francesco Frescobaldi.

While sunken ships from the Spanish Main ( such as Nuestra Señora de Atocha in the Florida Keys ) are the most commonly thought of type of treasure salvage, other types of ships including German submarines from World War II which can hold valuable historical artifacts, American Civil War ships ( the USS Maple Leaf in the St. Johns River, and the CSS Virginia in Chesapeake Bay ), and sunken merchant ships ( the SS Central America off Cape Hatteras ) have all been the subject of treasure salvage awards.

While stationed at Boise, Idaho, Holbrook met Henrietta Coffin, ( January 7, 1877 – March 28, 1965 ), the daughter of Frank R. Coffin, a merchant and baker and Charlotte Irene ( Quivey ) Coffin.

While the upper classes had been struggling with the Court for centuries, and regarded it as a necessary evil, the growing middle and merchant classes were more demanding.

While living in North Carolina, he worked in the county clerk ’ s office, taught school briefly, and became a merchant.

While active in civic affairs, he also was part owner of an iron foundry and was a successful merchant who was portrayed in John Greenwood's 1750s satirical painting, Sea Captains Carousing in Surinam.

While returning from Ireland, the Eagle fell in with a small squadron under Commodore Thomas Fox which sighted a French merchant convoy heading for the Bay of Biscay.

While the crews of merchant ships in which shanties were sung might have come from a wide variety of national and ethnic backgrounds and might have spoken various mother-tongues, the shanty genre was by and large an English-language phenomenon.

While there was no formal declaration of war, the conflict escalated with more French seizures of American merchant ships, American seizure of French merchant ships, and the abrogation of the Franco-American Alliance.

While typically passenger ships are part of the merchant marine, passenger ships have also been used as troopships and often are commissioned as naval ships when used as for that purpose.

While maritime academies frequently prepare cadets for careers in the merchant marine, maritime studies programs prepare students for a variety of careers in the civilian maritime industrial and service sectors.

While on board a merchant ship which has docked in Parmenie, Tristan is abducted by the Norwegian crew.

While in Venice, Hassler became friends with Giovanni Gabrieli, with whom he composed a wedding motet for Georg Gruber, a Nuremberg merchant living in Venice, in 1600.

While in the American merchant marine, he was impressed by the British in an incident typical of those which led in part to the War of 1812.

While there, he met and conversed with a Greek merchant, dressed in " Scythian " ( or Hunnic ) fashion, who was captured eight years earlier ( circa 441 – 442 ) when the city of Viminacium ( located on the Danube east of modern-day Belgrade ) was sacked by the Huns.

While the Royal Romanian Navy had light losses throughout the war, the state merchant navy was practically non-existent by late 1944: every ship of the SMR was sunk or damaged by the Soviet Navy and Air Force because of the light Romanian and German forces in the Black Sea that were unable to provide adequate protection.

While exploring the castle, he encounters a merchant who stumbled upon the castle and Death, Dracula's servant.

While a new chapel was being built, under the guise of a warehouse, by a wealthy merchant, named Pippard, the Catholics met stealthily for worship in the house of a Mr. and Mrs. Green in Dale Street, and the only friends of the proscribed ones were two large-hearted and tolerant Presbyterians who lived in adjoining houses, and who helped the Papists to gain, without observation, access to their temporary place of meeting.

While still in Poland, he met an unidentified Warsaw merchant, who revealed himself to Ashlag as a Kabbalist.

While Tyndale was with Poyntz in Antwerp, Richard Grafton was there as a merchant adventurer involved with Tyndale's project of publishing an English Bible.

While serving as First Sea Lord, his primary concerns dealt with devising plans on how the Royal Navy would keep shipping lanes open if Britain fell victim to a nuclear attack.

While many American privateers were captured in battles such as the Naval battle off Halifax, many more continued attacks on shipping and settlements until the final months of the war.

While many ports reopened after the war, they ( and coastal shipping in general ) faced huge pressure from rail ( presumably now offering improved freight rates compared to the 1910 era ).

While reducing the cargo reshipment rates for New Zealand industry, this is seen by some as a heavy blow for local competitors, who, specialised in coastal shipping only, are less able to achieve the costs savings of large lines – these can generally operate profitably even without cargo on New Zealand-internal legs of their routes, and are thus able to underbid others.

While the seaway is currently ( 2010 ) mostly used for shipping bulk cargo, the possibility of its use for large-scale container shipping is under consideration as well.

While sea ice prevents year-round shipping, the Canadian Coast Guard maintains a vessel traffic service ( VTS ) to ensure collisions do not occur.

While the company's retail market is Northern Ohio, its products have acquired a reputation that extends far beyond its local retail market and are available for shipping anywhere via the company's website.

While working as an executive for a shipping company, he taught himself Sumerian cuneiform and visited several archaeological sites.

While principally a union for people in the railway industry, the effect of the nationalisation and subsequent privatisations following the Second World War has meant that it has members working for railway companies, shipping companies, bus companies, travel agencies, airlines, call centres, and IT companies.

While other countries, such as Britain, already utilised canals and coastal shipping well, these nations had no government-controlled railways, and thus the vested interests of water-borne trade were less able to oppose new competition.

While some have speculated that shipping the " Rampage " might have saved 3dfx, the fact remains that the company never mastered the new concept of relatively cheap, high-performance designs with integrated 3D acceleration, which was rapidly becoming the de facto standard of PC graphics vise 2D.

While Stan and Ollie are en route home from Chicago, their supposed ship arriving from Honolulu sinks in a typhoon and the wives head to the shipping company's offices to find out any news about the survivors.

While strolling in the gardens, Adams is introduced to two of the country's leading abolitionists: the elderly freed slave Theodore Joadson ( Morgan Freeman ) and Christian activist Lewis Tappan ( Stellan Skarsgård ), both of whom are leading shipping magnates in New England and co-proprietors of the pro-abolitionist newssheet " The Emancipator ".

While living in the United Kingdom, Fisher's father, a keen Bolshevik, took part in gunrunning, shipping arms from the North East coast to the Baltic states to help the proletariat.

While commercial shipping no longer exists in Chippawa, pleasure boating continues and marina facilities can be found at Lyon's Creek just west of the village.

While the bigger railroads were preoccupied in developing nearby areas and shipping coal via rail to Hampton Roads, Page formed a plan to take advantage of the undeveloped coal lands, with Rogers and several others as investors.

While this procedure saves a company time and shipping costs, it requires artists to spend money for computer equipment.

While not a mining town, its prominence as a major shipping port for the Iron Range warrants its mention here.

On 2 September 1944 Finland officially informed Germany of the coming cease fire between Finland and the Soviet Union which led to Hitler's orders to confiscate all Finnish shipping and to prepare for the Operation Tanne Ost While the confiscation order was rescinded in order to facilitate the material transport related to Operation Birke, as Finnish authorities as prevented any ships from sailing from Finland to Germany, plans for capturing Hogland were kept in motion.

While Microsoft prepared an appeal, Stac obtained a preliminary injunction from the court stopping the sales of all MS-DOS products that included DoubleSpace ; by this time Microsoft had already started shipping an " upgrade " of MS-DOS to its OEM customers that removed DoubleSpace.

While the bigger railroads which were busy developing nearby areas and shipping coal via rail to Hampton Roads, he formed a plan.

While it may be easy to compare the base price of an item online, it may not be easy to see the total cost up front as additional fees such as shipping are often not be visible until the final step in the checkout process.