Word: freighter
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...dense fog hung low as the Isbrandtsen Company's 6,711-ton freighter Flying Enterprise moved away from her pier in Hamburg; her Danish-born master, Henrik Kurt Carlsen, 37, was obliged to conn her down the harbor by radar. There was nasty weather outside, and she creaked and complained as she rolled down past Dover and through the English Channel, heavy with a cargo of coffee beans, antique furniture, automobiles, U.S. mail and Rotterdam pig iron...
...took a long time. The waiting vessels pumped oil to smooth the raging waters. Even so, some of the jumpers were smashed back against the crippled freighter's plates. Lifeboats were broken against their mother ships. But two by two, swimmers floundered away, were picked up, gasping, oil-covered, half-drowned, and hauled to safety. Alone, Carlsen grinned and waved away the last waiting boat. The captain had elected to stay aboard his wounded ship...
...July 1, a 716-ton freighter bound through the Red Sea on legitimate business for the port of Aqaba, Jordan, and proceeding in international waters, was stopped by a warning shot from a corvette. An armed party "from the corvette boarded the freighter, locked her crew below decks for 13 hours, looted the ship's stores and smashed its radio. The Foreign Secretary of the affronted nation sat on the story for ten days while he nervously checked and rechecked accounts of the incident. When the Foreign Secretary finally protested this violation of his nation's rights...
...They're Not Fooling Anyone." The big Privateer buzzed the lumbering freighter almost at the mouth of a major Siberian harbor. Some crewmen caught on deck waved, probably in embarrassment. Or maybe you only imagined that, because you'd be embarrassed. Others scurried for hatches and doorways...
...Lieut. Marovish then leaned over the side, aiming his big camera. Again we passed over the ship, almost at mast height. Lieut. Marovish opened and closed his shutter, and came back to his seat wringing wet. Almost angrily he put the camera back into his case. The freighter carried the Panama flag sure enough, but everything about it looked American...