coffin ship

We were expecting some folks from another coffin ship, maybe a pretty woman or two.

Coffin ships - every female aboard being sent home to certain death.

Overall the death rate on the "coffin ships" was extremely high.

And what did the coffin ships have to do with Prescott's concerns?

Are we to save every scrap brought in by the folk of the coffin ships?

Fin, I tell you all of this lovely island is one great coffin ship.

Save that for the time when the coffin ships come no more, Gilly.

Bergen did not want to think about the coffin ships, but there was no avoiding it now.

Our overconsumption is turning the planet into one vast coffin ship.

A coffin ship is one that sets out on a long voyage in an unseaworthy condition.

It was common knowledge how the Beach Boys treated any surviving woman off the coffin ships.

The Coffin Ship is a 1911 American silent short adventure film.

"They came over on ships that were called coffin ships because so many people actually died on the way," he said.

The "coffin ships" that carried the lumber to Europe brought back emigrants as a "return cargo."

She seems to have spent most of her career as a "coffin ship", carrying Irish emigrants to Canada.

Owners of coffin ships provided as little food, water, and living space as was legally possible - if they obeyed the law at all.

My friends, we're aboard a coffin ship.

Fewer than four so-called coffin ships made it to Miramichi between 1844 and 1849 with less than three hundred people on board.

In the 19th century it was sometimes the practice to send heavily insured "coffin ships" to sea that were old, poorly maintained and overloaded.

And while you're at it, you might look into the rumor that Delacourt's boys have sunk a few coffin ships with all their occupants aboard.

This is a coffin ship, Harrigan, an' Henshaw he's the undertaker.

Smugglers first experimented with heavy steel subs dubbed "coffin ships" by the Colombians.

The lights had transformed the control chamber from that of a coffin ship to that of a working ship.

Coffin ship (insurance)

They were called coffin ships because countless passengers arrived dead after the hard voyage, and their bodies were then cremated or buried in mass graves.