freighter
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Just one lone freighter was seen moving towards the port.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
“They fooled us,” says Victor, retired after a life as a freighter crewman.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 28, 2026
In one operation about 35 nautical miles from the small island of Gavdos, off Crete, a coastguard vessel, a Danish freighter and a helicopter took 365 people off a fishing boat, according to the agency.
From Barron's ● Dec. 26, 2025
The freighter was quickly unloaded and flew back to China carrying only empty pallets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 18, 2025
History’s first aerial bombing and sinking of a ship at sea took place in February 1916, when a German bomber sank a British freighter.
From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman
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