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

The first shipload of captive Africans to arrive in the future United States came to Jamestown, Virginia—the first permanent English settlement in America—in August 1619.

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