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8 unusual facts about cargo ship


Bruce Township, Chippewa County, Michigan

Barbeau encompasses an area along the Saint Marys River where Great Lakes freighters can be seen at relatively close distance.

Charles Muñoz

After serving as a WWII navy aerial gunner in torpedo bombers, Muñoz next worked as a United States Merchant Marine radio officer, contentedly sailing on freighters, tankers, and passenger ships until, the world being what it was, he sailed for several years on munitions ships bound for duty in the wars in Korea and Vietnam.

Charlotte de Berry

While de Berry worked on the docks, a captain of a merchant ship saw her and kidnapped her.

Crater-class cargo ship

Crater-class cargo ship is a category of freighter that was constructed for use by the United States Navy during World War II under Maritime Commission EC2-S-C1 type.

Dragons in the Waters

Simon's Aunt Leonis accepts an invitation for Simon to travel by freighter to Venezuela with Simon's cousin, Forsyth Phair.

Jintang Island

In 27 March 2008, there has been an accident involving a Taizhou freighter that hit the bridge construction site.

Redburn

Unable to find employment at home and deciding to go to sea, young Wellingborough Redburn signs on the Highlander, a merchantman out of New York City and bound for Liverpool, England.

Scott Corbett

Many of Corbett's books were written while at sea, as he and his wife traveled extensively via freighter.


2GO Group

is a Philippines-based company engaged in transporting people and cargo using the fleet of inter-island ferries and cargo ships of the former ATS (Aboitiz Transport System)–-which owned the brands SuperFerry, Cebu Ferries and SuperCat—and Negros Navigation.

Marorka

Marorka’s systems have been installed on board vessels of various types and sizes; Fishing vessels, Cargo vessels, Cruise ships and Research vessels.

Merchantman

A merchantman is any non-naval vessel, including tankers, freighters, or cargo ships, but not troopships; An East Indiaman was a merchantman licensed to or by an East India joint-stock company.

MV Aeolian Sky

The Aeolian Sky was a Greek run freighter built in 1978, which collided with another ship near the Channel Islands and after a failed attempt at salvage sank off the coast of Dorset, England in a storm in late 1979.

SS Tobruk

Tobruk was a 7,090 GRT cargo ship which was built in 1941 as Empire Builder by William Gray & Sons Ltd for the Ministry of War Transport (MoWT).

Yashiromaru

Yashiromaru is a fictional cargo ship in Case Closed: Strategy Above the Depths.


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Brancaster

She was a coast-hugging general cargo ship which would have worked the crossings between the east coast of England and through to the Baltic states.

Charles and Lee-Lee Chan

Charles returned home and eventually found employment on a Mitsubishi cargo ship in Wuhan.

Dover Hill

SS Dover Hill, a UK cargo ship completed in 1918 as the SS Clan Macvicar, renamed SS Dover Hill in 1936 and scuttled in the Normandy landings in 1944.

German ship Totila

Totila was a German cargo ship, which sank on May 10, 1944, near Khersones, during the Axis evacuation of the Crimea, killing up to 5,000 German and Romanian soldiers.

Heinz-Wilhelm Eck

The operation to sink the rafts and wreckage was not hugely successful, but the submarine was able to evade pursuit, and managed to sink the British cargo ship SS Dahomian off Cape Town on 1 April, this time hastily leaving the scene rather than pausing.

Kingston Hill

SS Kingston Hill, a British cargo ship built in 1940 and torpedoed and sunk in 1941

MS Nordlys

MS Nordlys (1993) is a 11,204 ton passenger/cargo ship launched on 13 August 1993, at Volkswerft GmbH, Stralsund, Germany.

MS Stena Feronia

On 7 March 2012 the Stena Feronia collided with a cargo ship in Belfast Lough.

MV Anne Scan

Anne Scan is a cargo ship registered in Antigua and Barbuda which was detained in Greenore, Republic of Ireland on 27 October 2009 when over 50,000,000 worth of cigarettes were discovered on board.

MV Claymore 2

MV Claymore II is a Passenger / Cargo ship built in 1966 by Jadewerft, Wilhelmshaven.

MV Shariatpur 1

The MV Shariatpur 1 was a double deck ferry that capsized in March 2012 after colliding with a cargo ship on the Meghna River.

Paula van der Oest

De trip van Teetje (the journey of Teetje) was produced in 1998, with Cees Geel as a louche entrepreneur who buys a Russian cargo ship.

Putney Hill

MV Putney Hill, a British cargo ship built in 1940 and sunk that same year

Saint-Victor, Quebec

A Royal Canadian Air Force pilot in World War II, he attacked a cargo ship along the Normandy coast, shot a Nazi airplane, and was credited for sinking a Nazi ship in the North Sea.

SS Abessinia

SS Abessinia (1900) was a 5,633 ton passenger/cargo ship launched on 16 June 1900, by Palmers', Jarrow, England.

SS Barossa

The SS Barossa was a 4,239 gross ton cargo ship built by Caledon Shipbuilding & Engineering Company, Dundee for the Adelaide Steamship Company in 1938.

SS Barøy

SS Barøy (1929) was a 424 ton passenger/cargo ship completed on 19 August 1929, by Trondhjems mekaniske Værksted in Trondheim, Norway.

SS Columbia Eagle incident

The Columbia Eagle was a Victory-type cargo ship constructed by Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation of Portland, Oregon in 1945 for the US Navy and originally christened Pierre Victory.

SS Donau

SS Donau (Rostock, 1922) was a 2,575 ton cargo ship completed as the Osterndorf for the Vinnen Bros in June 1922, by Neptun AG in Rostock, Germany.

SS Donau (1882) was a 1,513 ton cargo ship launched on 18 July 1882, by Thompson, R. in Southwick, England for A.C. Mohr & Son.

SS Donau (1939) was a 2,931 ton cargo ship completed in March 1939, by Neptun AG in Rostock, Germany.

SS Dronning Maud

SS Dronning Maud (1906) was a 1,761 ton Danish passenger/cargo ship launched on 10 August 1906, by Burmeister & Wain, Copenhagen, Denmark.

SS Irma

SS Irma (1905) was a 1,322 ton passenger/cargo ship launched on 5 January 1905, by Sir Raylton Dixon & Co. Ltd. in Middlesbrough, England.

SS Nordnorge

SS Nordnorge (1923) was a 991 ton passenger/cargo ship launched on 12 September 1923, by Trondhjems mekaniske Værksted in Trondheim, Norway.

SS Oria

SS Oria (1920) was a 2,127 ton cargo ship launched on 17 June 1920, by Osbourne Graham of North Hylton, United Kingdom.

SS Oria (1890) was a 2,167 ton cargo ship launched on 20 March 1890, by Thompson, R., Southwick, England.

SS Oria (1913) was a 1,845 ton cargo ship launched on 12 September 1913 in Fevig, Norway.

SS Pfalz

SS Pfalz (1893) was a 3,849 ton passenger/cargo ship launched on 31 July 1893, by Wigham Richardson, Low Walker, England.

SS Pfalz (1912) was a 7,128 ton cargo ship launched on 31 August 1912, by Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft in Flensburg, Germany as Ramses.

SS Selma

SS Selma (1871) was a 1,172 ton cargo ship launched as the Elf on 19 August 1871, by William Doxford & Sons, Pallion, England.

SS Selma (1921) was a 1,746 ton cargo ship launched on 17 June 1921, by Howaldtswerke in Kiel, Germany.

SS Westfalen

SS Westfalen (1900) was a 2,384 ton cargo ship completed in March 1901, by Neptun Werft in Rostock, Germany.

West Hatch

During the cleanup operation after the beaching of the MSC Napoli cargo ship off the coast of Devon in January 2007, the majority of seabirds covered in oil were sent to the West Hatch RSPCA to be cleaned.

William Richard Williamson

When this venture ended in failure, Williamson went to San Francisco and enlisted on a cargo ship bound for Bordeaux.