He started his career as a ship owner in 1906.
He went to sea at the age of seventeen, later becoming a ship owner.
That practice was stopped, and now the government, unlike commercial ship owners, is held to much higher environmental standards.
I am a poor man and you might easily have been sent by the harbor master to some other ship owner.
A group of ship owners formed an association to raise their profits.
He was not satisfied, however, with this profession and went on to become a ship owner.
It won't make any difference that he's the richest ship owner on the island.
Many ship owners went bankrupt in the middle of the 18th century.
"I've called the ship owners, and they tell me that about 40 people are missing," he replied.
The customs officers wanted to please the rich ship owner.