Sentence examples for freighter off from inspiring English sources

In the last year, 58 Chinese migrants suffocated trying to enter Britain in the freight container of a truck, and earlier this year nearly a thousand Kurds ran aground in the bowels of a creaky freighter off the French Riviera.

In November 2006, the French Navy seized 4.7 tons of cocaine stashed aboard a Panamanian freighter off the coast of Martinique.

Garland's tour promoter Mark Herron announced that they had married aboard a freighter off the coast of Hong Kong; however, she was not legally divorced from Luft at the time the ceremony was performed.

Flying a B-25 he named Notre Dame de Victoire — he was a graduate of the University of Notre Dame — General Henebry (his postwar rank) hit two Japanese freighters off Rabaul using the skip-bombing technique.

After a five-year pursuit spanning Asia and the Americas, the authorities say the Hong Kong police have captured a ringleader of the Golden Venture human smuggling operation, in which 10 illegal Chinese immigrants died after a freighter ran aground off Queens in 1993.

B3 Smuggling Suspect Arrested Officials said the Hong Kong police had captured a ringleader of the Golden Venture human smuggling operation, in which 10 Chinese illegal immigrants died after a freighter ran aground off Queens in 1993.

A fuel spill yesterday from a freighter anchored off Staten Island sent tarlike balls of heavy-grade oil washing ashore in Sea Gate, Brooklyn, a residential enclave west of Coney Island, the authorities said.

NAIROBI, Kenya — The saga over the Ukrainian arms freighter hijacked off Somalia's coast more than four months ago drew to a close on Thursday almost exactly the way the pirates had predicted: with the booty.

A mile down the road, on the steps of the president's white wooden office, Mr Harris and the Australian defence minister Peter Reith yesterday outlined details of a petrol-for-people deal, designed to spare the Australian government the embarrassment of assessing the claims of 433 asylum seekers saved by the Norwegian freighter Tampa off Christmas Island 16 days ago.

At sea, a Heinkel He 115 floatplane attacked and sank the 5548 LT freighter Mailsea River off Montrose with a torpedo.

I-29 entered Australian waters in May and made an unsuccessful attack on the neutral Soviet freighter Wellen off Newcastle on 16 May.