shipload

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Jump to 2019, when a shipload of archaeologists, ice experts, engineers and masters of several other disciplines set out to find the Endurance.

From Washington Post • Mar. 3, 2023

The following year, a consortium of Canadian farmers arranged to import a shipload of Russian fertilizer through Churchill’s port, saving about 10 percent on the standard cost.

From New York Times • Nov. 4, 2021

The shipload of equipment is just the latest frustration Russians are having with a leader they claim is out of touch.

From Fox News • Apr. 22, 2020

In 1944, Gruber agitated for an assignment from the Roosevelt administration to secretly escort a shipload of Jewish refugees from Naples, Italy to the United States.

From Washington Times • Nov. 30, 2016

The first shipload of captive Africans to arrive in the future United States came to Jamestown, Virginia—the first permanent English settlement in America—in August 1619.

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis