oceangoing
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Around 1607, settlers in the nearby Popham Colony constructed a wooden sailboat, dubbed Virginia—the first oceangoing boat built by English settlers in North America.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
About 90% of all trade is handled on an oceangoing basis.
From Barron's ● Apr. 22, 2026
The war has strangled shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, a U-bend-like chokepoint off the Iranian coast that acts as a highway for more than a third of the world’s oceangoing oil exports each year.
From Slate ● Mar. 6, 2026
“We do not know if the ship was oceangoing, meaning that it crossed over the North Sea to England,” Dr. Grønnesby said.
From New York Times ● May 31, 2024
He is questioned in a van and again in an ice-cold mezzanine office decorated with poorly executed watercolors of oceangoing steamers.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
