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

Undaunted, Raleigh sent John White back to Virginia in 1587 with a shipload of men, women, and children.

From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018

On November 19 of that year, a ship carrying 500 Maori armed with guns, clubs, and axes arrived, followed on December 5 by a shipload of 400 more Maori.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond