ship-breaker

Let me request a few things of you in private before this Ship-breaker comes calling.

'We know the Ship-breaker can pay.

The ship was sold for demolition to an Italian ship-breaker and towed to Genoa, arriving on 5 September 1959.

The Leviathan was launched in Hamburg in 1913 but was subsequently sent to the United States as part of the First World War reparations, and eventually reached the ship-breaker's yard in Rosyth in 1983.

She was likely to be scrapped, probably at a ship-breaker's yard in Turkey, as the only economically viable option for the owners, in the face of the high cost of conversion, the Europe wide credit crisis and the high scrap value of steel.

On the Staten Island side of the kill, now crowded with tankers and container ships that shun the city in favor of Newark and Elizabeth, a ship-breaker's yard has become the final resting place of scores of abandoned harbor craft.

On Quilp's Wharf, Daniel Quilp was a ship-breaker, yet to judge from these appearances he must either have been a ship-breaker on a very small scale, or have broken his ships up very small indeed.