Word: freighter
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Person of the Week CAST AWAY Australian Prime Minister John Howard wanted a Norwegian cargo ship full of asylum-seekers to take its payload elsewhere. The freighter's crew rescued more than 400 mostly Afghan refugees from a sinking Indonesian ferry. But Howard's hard line kept them in limbo for days...
...After Cuthbert's success sailing the Precious Dragon to Britain, he received a phone call from a fellow Englishman, a maritime adventurer named Rex Warner, who wanted to borrow the ship to recreate one of Zheng He's trips. Cuthbert happily agreed. The Precious Dragon was loaded onto a freighter, shipped back to Hong Kong and prepared for its new journey. Warner was anxious to set off in the autumn, catching the strong west winds, as Zheng He had done...
...against the slate-gray Baltic skyline, the Finnfighter has neither the smooth horizontal lines of a conventional freighter nor the bulk of a passenger ferryboat. It combines elements of both, as if a cargo ship had slowly crunched its stern flat against an iceberg. It's the latest in a new line of ships to roll out of Dry Dock No. 1 in the industrial port city of Gdynia. It's also a rare economic success story to emerge from the tatters of communist rule...
...forced to resign in 1996 after suggesting that three U.S. servicemen who raped a 12-year-old Japanese girl should have hired a prostitute instead. And this wasn't the first time a U.S. Navy submarine sank a ship named Ehime Maru: another U.S. sub had sunk a freighter by the same name during World...
...forced to resign in 1996 after suggesting that three U.S. servicemen who raped a 12-year-old Japanese girl should have hired a prostitute instead. And this wasn't the first time a U.S. Navy submarine sank a ship named Ehime Maru: another U.S. sub had sunk a freighter by the same name during World...