trawler
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This modest trawler, the Rose of Nevada, no longer contains its doomed crew and yet here it is, without explanation and ready for new fishermen.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2026
The end was drawing near in a nine-year fight for justice, in a case of modern slavery on a Scottish fishing trawler.
From BBC ● Jun. 8, 2026
Within hours of carrying the first telegram across the English Channel in 1850, the earliest “submarine telegraph”—27 miles of copper wire wrapped in a rubbery substance called gutta percha—was broken by a fishing trawler.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 4, 2026
They follow the trawler, waiting for discarded fish heads and guts which fishermen throw into the sea as they sort through and process their catch.
From BBC ● Dec. 30, 2025
Edwin’s small skiff led the way, followed by a large green fishing trawler.
From "Touching Spirit Bear" by Ben Mikaelsen
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