Sentence examples for freighter mv from inspiring English sources
Australia sent troops to board the freighter, MV Tampa, and block any attempt to land on Christmas Island.
The penguins were trapped in oil released by the freighter MV Oliva when it ran aground and broke up last month off Nightingale island, 20 miles from the main island of Tristan da Cunha.
This is now a 15-year debate in Australia, since 2001 when the Norwegian freighter MV Tampa rescued 438 asylum-seekers who were stranded in a wooden fishing boat in international waters off Christmas Island.
The Norwegian motor freighter MV Cometa was sunk on 26 March.
The following day, the British motor freighter MV Queen Maud was hit and sunk.
On 1 October, the British motor freighter MV Highland Patriot was torpedoed.
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In August that year, he dispatched Australian special forces to board a Norwegian freighter, the MV Tampa, to block 439 mostly-Afghan refugees from entering Australia's territorial waters.
Among them is the MV Faina, a Ukrainian freighter captured in September with a cargo of tanks almost certainly bound for south Sudan (with Kenyan government help).
Jackson had been studying Centaur for some time, and believed that the wreck was actually another, much smaller ship, the 55 m MV Kyogle, a lime freighter purchased by the Royal Australian Air Force and sunk during bombing practice on 12 May 1951.
