Sentence examples for freighter sailing from inspiring English sources

NEWARK — IN the rising light of a mid-September morning, the CSAV Pyrenees, a blue-water freighter sailing out of Suape Port in Brazil, was lashed to its lines at Berth 59 of the Port Newark Container Terminal.

Near the middle of Alan Furst's new novel, "Dark Voyage," Busby Berkeley's 1933 musical "Footlight Parade" is screened on the deck of a tramp freighter sailing from Tangier to Lisbon.

In 1931, Mitchell was fired from the Trib after flinging an inkwell at the publisher's wall in a drunken fit of temper, but after a stint as a deckhand on a freighter sailing to the Soviet Union he landed a job at the World-Telegram, then thought to be "the writer's paper.

Leo trudged down to the hiring hall, sat for a day and a half, and signed aboard a Pacific Far East Line freighter sailing for Manila, Yokohama, and Hong Kong.

The convoy, consisting of six freighters, sailed on 15 September from the Gulf of Bothnia, with the entire Second Task Force escorting it.

On 27 December, U-38 destroyed the British ship SS Waiotira, and on 31 December, she sank the Swedish motor freighter SS Valparaiso, sailing as part of the HX-97 convoy from Halifax to Glasgow.

In an interview last year with a South Korean newspaper, he said he was born in Korea and left his homeland in 1963, when he hopped a freighter and sailed to America.

The government of Taiwan is facing growing pressure to allow freighters to sail directly between Taiwan and the Chinese mainland, as a way to reduce business costs and lessen tensions between the longstanding rivals.

The head of an albatross being caught with a hook is used as the emblem of the Cape Horners, i.e. sailors who have rounded Cape Horn on freighters under sail; captains of such ships even received themselves the title "albatrosses" in the Cape Horners' organisation.

The Italian freighter Unione was sailing with a load of coal from Clyde for Genoa when U-66 torpedoed her off Land's End.

Transporting yachts on freighters instead of sailing them on their own bottoms is a growing worldwide business.