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cargo ship

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Noun1.cargo ship - a ship designed to carry cargocargo ship - a ship designed to carry cargo      
banana boat - a ship designed to transport bananas
freighter, merchant ship, merchantman, bottom - a cargo ship; "they did much of their overseas trade in foreign bottoms"
cattle boat, cattleship - a cargo ship for the transport of livestock
container ship, container vessel, containership - a cargo ship designed to hold containerized cargoes; "the weight of the documentation of all the consignments on board a contemporary container ship can exceed 90 pounds"
freeboard deck - the uppermost watertight deck
Liberty ship - a slow cargo ship built during World War II
oil tanker, tank ship, tanker, oiler - a cargo ship designed to carry crude oil in bulk
ship - a vessel that carries passengers or freight


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Byline: Daily Star Staff Summary: The most recent vessels to fall prey to Somali pirates were a Yemeni fishing boat and a Marshall Islands-flagged cargo ship carrying chemicals, pirate crews and officials said Wednesday.
The SS Politician, an 8,000-ton cargo ship, sank in 1941 near the island of Eriskay in the Outer Hebrides, on its way to Kingston in Jamaica and New Orleans.
They would be a major attraction, school children, for example, from all over the county could be educated as to how nearly 20,000 dockers once loaded and un-loaded such ships that travelled to the four corners of the world, before the days of containers, the whole area would be enhanced by one or two such cargo ships, most ports have different vessels ranging from old sailing ships to war ships, and a general cargo ship would be ideal for Liverpool in this area around the Albert Dock.
 
 
 
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