In addition to training the ship's crew, there's the matter of getting the air crews shipshape. |
The wreck for the first time becomes somewhat shipshape at this point, with deck fittings, derricks and winches clearly identifiable. |
This is only stop-gap funding, however, and it's a far cry from what the Coast Guard says it needs to operate in a shipshape manner. |
The ferry owner says some officials take backhanders to issue fitness certificates and licenses for vessels that are not shipshape. |
Even though all the relevant bits and pieces are still shipshape and Bristol fashion, of course. |
Last night they were hit by torrential rain as they began to make the port shipshape for aid deliveries. |