Sentence examples for freighter captain from inspiring English sources

Poet, merchant mariner, freighter captain, and bartender died peacefully on Wednesday, January 19th at his home in Manhattan.

Mr. Sinar, the freighter captain, said that his vessel hauls cement to outlying islands with limited cement production of their own.

Mr. Obama escalated the war in Afghanistan — committing more troops and more air assaults than the Bush administration even considered — stayed the course in Iraq, and when Somali pirates took an American freighter captain hostage, the president ordered U.S. Navy snipers to shoot the captors; three pirates were killed and the American was freed.

It's called a freight container, and it can hold up to sixty thousand pounds of goods: sneakers, khakis, televisions, DRAM chips, whatever... Writer interviews Thomas Hansen, a freighter captain... Back in 1956, when a man named Malcolm McLean loaded fifty-eight truck trailers onto a ship bound from Newark to Houston, few imagined that these clunky boxes would revolutionize world trade.

The Mitchum character, a civilian freighter captain during peacetime, has a back story similar to Richardson's in Run Silent Run Deep, but with a dash of romantic sadness: On his wedding day, the ship bearing him and his wife to their honeymoon was torpedoed by a U-boat, and his bride went down with the ship.

But for Canadians worried about inexperienced freighter captains' probing Arctic waters, the dream could become a nightmare if the fragile environment becomes the Panama Canal of the North.

Another claim still to weigh: that the other three hijackers, who were killed by Navy sharpshooters to rescue the freighter's captain, had brainwashed or coerced Mr. Muse to help them.

They tell the freighter's captain of Michael's true identity, who orders him to repair the engines.

When Keamy murders the freighter's captain (Grant Bowler) in a display of power, he is forced to comply, but is able to secretly transfer a satellite phone to the survivors as a warning.

The freighter was captained by Ernest M. McSorley, and on board were 28 other men.

Tintin keeps the model, in which he finds the riddle that sets him and Snowy off on a series of zippily choreographed chases that first take them from their home in Brussels to a freighter, where they meet Captain Haddock (Andy Serkis), a blustering boozer who's more amusing on the page than onscreen.