The phrase "a ship full of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a ship that is filled with a particular group of people or items.
Example: "The story revolves around a ship full of adventurous explorers seeking new lands."
Alternatives: "a vessel packed with" or "a boat brimming with".
A ship full of refugees fleeing the Nazis once begged the U.S. for entry.
A ship full of friendly people would seem a welcome alternative.
In Lord Jim, the hero leaps from a ship full of Muslim pilgrims, which he believes to be sinking.
When a ship full of explorers was lost, dozens of men could die; his expedition would only risk the lives of three.
That's what brought him to California, where it took him nearly two years to sell a ship full of corroded welding equipment he'd bought.
Justin Trudeau has formally apologized on behalf of Canada for turning away a ship full of Jewish refugees trying to flee Nazi Germany in 1939.
Amusingly, Coburn would himself play a British nobleman, Sir Francis Piggyy" Beekman, on board a cruise ship full of eligible millionaires in a comparable comedy of gold-digging: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, from 1953.
"So far we have an Indian boy named after a French swimming pool on a Japanese ship full of animals heading off to Canada," the writer played by Rafe Spall says, just before the ordeal on the high seas begins.
The crew of the International Space Station on Sunday took delivery of a special Easter treat: a cargo ship full of supplies.
The only disappointment in following the Goonies trail is that the most exciting parts of the film take place in a warren of underground caves, full of "boodie traps", a waterfall and ultimately a pirate ship full of One-Eyed Willie's treasure – none of which exist outside of a Hollywood sound stage.
Vonnegut imagines a near future marked by ecological and cultural devastation, in which the only human endeavor uniting the world is a plan to launch a rocket ship full of semen to the Andromeda Galaxy, in the hope of creating a new race.
