Sentence examples for from a freighter from inspiring English sources

An accidental release from a freighter in New Orleans is suspected as the source of its most recent spread.

The city's name, an Aboriginal word meaning "young woman," was taken from a freighter wrecked offshore in 1920 that was incorporated in the construction of a jetty.

There are a hearty few recreational boaters around here, including the roughly 100 members of the 100-year-old Robbins Reef Yacht Club in Bayonne, directly across the river from a freighter unloading station.

They donned Santa Claus hats and handed out stockings full of coal -- the dirtiest of the fossil fuels -- taken by a Greenpeace team a week earlier from a freighter in the nearby harbor of Rotterdam.

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.

The Manoora had earlier picked up 433 Afghan asylum seekers from a Norwegian freighter, Tampa, after the freighter rescued them in the Indian ocean.

They emigrated to Canada from Europe on a freighter a year before I was born.

Jimmy and her shotgun are missing, but he hurries back to tell her he's spotted a freighter from The Bluffs and grabs some signal flares from the trunk.

What the 18 Chinese men got was a cargo container aboard a freighter from Hong Kong to Seattle, with flashlights, minimal food and buckets for toilets.

Photo: Rough seas and a remote location have hampered efforts to reach oil spilled from the halves of a freighter that went aground last week.

A federal report shows that the environmental damage from the grounding of a freighter on the Oregon coast in 1999 was much greater than thought.