freight ship

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It must have been a bizarre sight when a freight ship, equipped with two large rotating towers, made its way under the Forth Bridge a century ago.

From BBC • Oct. 13, 2025

The three were rescued by a Panama-flagged freight ship, which landed them at Mooloolaba Harbor on the Sunshine Coast north of the Queensland capital Brisbane on Thursday, the authority said.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 6, 2023

Lightfoot was nominated for four Grammy awards, including for the The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, about the drowning of 29 sailors when a freight ship sank in Lake Superior.

From BBC • May 2, 2023

Condor Ferries confirmed its freight ship had been involved in the collision.

From BBC • Dec. 10, 2022

Finally, on Thursday, the twentieth of April, a great freight ship was sighted, one of the sort that sail these seas.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 22 of 55 1625-29 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. by Robertson, James Alexander