freighter

When you think about the folk era, when it was really hot — burning hot — it was hobos on freighters writing songs about social injustice.

After the telegram arrived, instructing him to head to Le Harve, the 19-year-old discovered the only available ship was a freighter packed with army lorries, according to the Royal Navy.

Offshore, more grain-laden freighters had already left the port, passing vessels about to enter.

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.

The path taken by the cargo ship - which was exiting the Port of Baltimore under the Key Bridge - is "no stranger to large freighters", the city's representatives wrote.