ship-worm

This fought off ship-worm and kept the hulls cleaner, so they could keep good speed for half a year out of dock which, if you are fighting often far from home, is very advantageous.

Cochrane: Britannia’s Sea Wolf, by Donald Thomas. Book review Carla 2008

A salt-water creature very destructive to shipping and the wharves is the teredo, or ship-worm.

Stories of California Ella M. Sexton

And now, if any of my young friends who may read this book should ever visit London, and go to see the great tunnel, as they gaze in wonder at it, let them remember Sir I. Brunel, and that little ship-worm; and then, let them say to themselves: "This mighty tunnel is an illustration of the truth that humility helps to make us useful."

The Life of Jesus Christ for the Young Richard Newton

But, in accomplishing the great undertaking that little ship-worm was his teacher.

The Life of Jesus Christ for the Young Richard Newton

We read that a ship-worm, working its way through a dry stick of wood, suggested to

Wit, Humor, Reason, Rhetoric, Prose, Poetry and Story Woven into Eight Popular Lectures George W. Bain

He now suggested to two of the pilots that they should report five of the ships to be in an unseaworthy condition from the borings of the teredos -- in those days sheathing for hulls had not been invented, and the ship-worm was a constant danger, in tropical waters especially.

Days of the Discoverers L. Lamprey 1910

A ship-worm boring a piece of wood suggested to Sir Isambard Brunei the idea of a tunnel under the

Architects of Fate or, Steps to Success and Power Orison Swett Marden 1887

With three pumps, and the use of pots and kettles, we could scarcely clear the water that came into the ship, there being no remedy but this for the mischief done by the ship-worm.

The Northmen, Columbus and Cabot, 985-1503 Various 1884

The galleys are sheathed with it, for the ship-worm bores into it but little.

The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 18 of 55 1617-1620 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century Edward Gaylord Bourne 1884

Our author no doubt here alludes to the ravages of the Teredo, or ship-worm, which burrows into timber, and with which the barnacles themselves are thus confused.

Young Folks' Library, Volume XI (of 20) Wonders of Earth, Sea and Sky Various 1880