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Recent Examples of steamship
In the mid-nineteenth century, the drivers were the steamship, the undersea cable, and the railroad.
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Harold James, Foreign Affairs, 20 Apr. 2021
Michigan Shipwreck Research Association That discovery was announced just weeks after the 1886 wreck of the steamship Milwaukee was found more than 350 feet below the surface in Lake Michigan.
—CBS News, 2 Oct. 2024
The expedition team's next target using the Hydrus technology is the wreck of the luxury passenger steamship SS Koombana, which disappeared somewhere off Port Hedland en route to Broome during a tropical cyclone in 1912, with 150 on board presumed to have perished.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 2 Apr. 2024
Le Lyonnais was a trans-Atlantic steamship, built in England for a French company.
—Kerry Breen, CBS News, 11 Sep. 2024
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Harold James, Foreign Affairs, 20 Apr. 2021
Michigan Shipwreck Research Association That discovery was announced just weeks after the 1886 wreck of the steamship Milwaukee was found more than 350 feet below the surface in Lake Michigan.
—CBS News, 2 Oct. 2024
The expedition team's next target using the Hydrus technology is the wreck of the luxury passenger steamship SS Koombana, which disappeared somewhere off Port Hedland en route to Broome during a tropical cyclone in 1912, with 150 on board presumed to have perished.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 2 Apr. 2024
Le Lyonnais was a trans-Atlantic steamship, built in England for a French company.
—Kerry Breen, CBS News, 11 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for steamship
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That’s why some flight attendants choose to invest in a portable travel steamer to help keep their uniforms wrinkle-free while away from home.Amelia McBride, Travel + Leisure, 31 Dec. 2024
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They’re often stuffed with either shrimp or pork, wrapped in banana leaf to prevent them from sticking to one another, and thrown into a steamer.Christina Liao, Vogue, 27 Dec. 2024
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Supplies for the season are brought in via a massive barge from Vancouver while fresh produce is brought in weekly.Kyle J. Russell, USA TODAY, 16 Dec. 2024
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Deep water surrounded much of the area, so someone had placed sheets of wood on top of a chain link fence and balanced both on blocks of plastic foam, creating a makeshift barge that could pull piles of debris from shore to shore. Skid loaders crisscrossed the nearby sand.Blake Nelson, The Mercury News, 12 Nov. 2024
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Skip the redundant backstory and give us more freighter action with Captain Galt, Keamy, and Minkowski.Michael Alan Connelly, Vulture, 1 July 2024
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In 2024 through September, Boeing delivered thirty eight MAX aircraft to China, and in July two 777 freighters to Air China.Jerrold Lundquist, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2024
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For example, when over 1,000 people died in a ferryboat accident in the Red Sea in 2006, critics accused the military of failing to deploy quickly enough to rescue them.Jeff Martini, Foreign Affairs, 1 Sep. 2011
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On another ferryboat is the Constitution and all the state and local officials dedicated to upholding it.Alexandra Petri, Washington Post, 18 June 2024
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Also on Thursday, a Chinese warship with the bow number 552 was spotted about 50 nautical miles (58 miles) off the coast of Zambales province in Luzon, the Philippines' most populous island.Micah McCartney, Newsweek, 19 Dec. 2024
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South Korea Defense Ministry/AP In November, Mr. Nakatani became the first Japanese defense minister to board a South Korean warship, when the ship made a port call in Yokosuka, Japan.Ann Scott Tyson, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Dec. 2024
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Nearly 70 percent of Russia’s oil is being transported by shadow tankers, according to an analysis published in October by the Kyiv School of Economics Institute, a research organization based in Ukraine.Michael Schwirtz, New York Times, 28 Dec. 2024
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The tanker vented a vapor cloud that was visible to passing motorists.Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 26 Dec. 2024
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These preyed upon American merchantmen who either payed tribute or showed forged British passes.Thomas Wendel, National Review, 4 July 2019
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The Navy already has ships in the fleet that are former merchantmen.Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 10 Jan. 2019
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Nassau had no men-of-war ships, and Trott’s stone fort was still a building site.Sean Kingsley, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Apr. 2024
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My hundred-and-forty-foot man-of-war sought to make the first mission to the South Pole, a feat that would bring pride to England.Mike O’Brien, The New Yorker, 7 Nov. 2023
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“Steamship.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/steamship. Accessed 5 Jan. 2025.
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