trawler
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Mohamedi Kamara, 55, tells me that a large, international trawler damaged his craft in a collision.
From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2026
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
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
One foggy morning, we left shore in the dark on a small trawler with Captain Park Hyung-il, who has been fishing anchovies off Korea's south coast for more than 25 years.
From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2025
Shoto’s vessel was a large interplanetary trawler named the Kurosawa, modeled after a ship called the Bebop in the classic anime series Cowboy Bebop.
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
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