Sentence examples for a small freighter from inspiring English sources

Dream has smokestacks like a real ship and two cranes, similar to those on a small freighter.

While clearing up some issues, the ministry statement left many questions unanswered: Why would hijackers seize a small freighter carrying only about $2 million in timber?

Some of the Chinese gas on offer traveled to Ireland and the Dominican Republic before arriving in Miami, hidden among legitimate goods in three cargo containers on a small freighter.

In April 1996, he bought a small freighter that was due to be scrapped and persuaded the British authorities to allow him to fly it to Ostend, supposedly to sell the parts.

On a recent bright-blue morning, there were two vessels in: the Contship London, out of Monrovia under the Liberian flag, which was being unloaded by three of the cranes on Pier 11, and the Mayor, a small freighter out of Cyprus docked at Pier 8.

The first, and fortunately last, E-bomb was built by a previously unknown group of Asian terrorists and was taken into New York Harbor on board a small freighter.

Writer travelled on a small British freighter.

The port facilities and oil storage tanks were heavily damaged and one small freighter was sunk for the loss of one Hellcat to flak.

Other Jap merchant craft are divided into; small freighters - up to 500 tons; medium cargo ships, 1,500 to 4,500, etc.

As international trade has increased over the last several decades, cargo ships have grown bigger -- and larger ships moves bulk goods more cheaply than small freighters.

The pirates have reached a technical and nautical sophistication matching that of many "real" coastguards all over the world: Somali pirates operate from mother ships, probably small freighters or local dhows, which enable them to strike so far out at sea.