collier

Example Sentences

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My grandfather had been a collier in northern England, my father a career Marine sergeant.

From New York Times • Dec. 17, 2021

The Bywell Castle ploughed straight into the starboard side of the Princess Alice, which weighed less than a third of the 890-ton collier.

From BBC • Sep. 2, 2018

It looked to him as though the collier was heading straight for the smaller boat but he thought little of it, having faith the Bywell Castle would alter its path.

From BBC • Sep. 2, 2018

Largest and swankest was the Rex, an old, British-built square-rigger, formerly the collier Kenilworth.

From Time Magazine Archive

Taking advantage of the information concerning the dispositions of the British cruisers the kapitan of the Pelikan stopped another collier at a distance of four hundred miles east of Buenos Ayres.

From Rounding up the Raider A Naval Story of the Great War by Westerman, Percy F. (Percy Francis)