shipload

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Jump to 2019, when a shipload of archaeologists, ice experts, engineers and masters of several other disciplines set out to find the Endurance.

From Washington Post • Mar. 3, 2023

The following year, a consortium of Canadian farmers arranged to import a shipload of Russian fertilizer through Churchill’s port, saving about 10 percent on the standard cost.

From New York Times • Nov. 4, 2021

With Southern resentment of federal control near a peak, Alabama plantation owner Timothy Meaher made a bet that he could bring a shipload of Africans across the ocean, said historian Natalie S. Robertson.

From Fox News • Feb. 8, 2019

In 1944, Gruber agitated for an assignment from the Roosevelt administration to secretly escort a shipload of Jewish refugees from Naples, Italy to the United States.

From Washington Times • Nov. 30, 2016

The very real fear that the British would free America’s enslaved people was as important as a shipload of tea or a slogan such as “No taxation without representation.”

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis