freighter

Anxiety filled the city’s atmosphere, especially early in the war, when Allied freighters were being torpedoed off the coast, tragically framed against the city’s nighttime glow.

When you think about the folk era, when it was really hot — burning hot — it was hobos on freighters writing songs about social injustice.

After the telegram arrived, instructing him to head to Le Harve, the 19-year-old discovered the only available ship was a freighter packed with army lorries, according to the Royal Navy.

Offshore, more grain-laden freighters had already left the port, passing vessels about to enter.

History’s first aerial bombing and sinking of a ship at sea took place in February 1916, when a German bomber sank a British freighter.