She evaded the three escorts long enough to get a shot at the lone merchantman, an 800-ton cargo freighter and pressed home a successful attack.
You need not have booked your passage here on a cargo freighter.
"The cargo freighter might not come for months so you have to make do."
"They are under tight security on a cargo freighter moored off a remote island in the Azores."
The ship leaving for the open sea that misty dawn at Yokohama, years ago, an ocean away, had been a general cargo freighter.
The marine terminal accommodates containerships and small (150 gross ton) general cargo freighters.
Her job was to retrieve valuable building materials that were stored in a cargo freighter which ran aground on a coral reef.
Carter accepts the mission and makes his way to Istanbul posing as a crewman on a cargo freighter.
For the next five years, she was used as a general cargo freighter in the North Atlantic.
The room was bigger than the bridge of most cargo freighters and a hell of a lot more decorative.