Then there were two open steam freighters, carrying full loads covered with tarps.
No steam freighter guaranteed a smooth ride.
The SS Norwich City was an oil-fired steam freighter powered by a triple expansion steam engine.
Alice Gertrude fell apart quickly and the only salvageable parts were the boiler and the engine, which were removed from the wreck by the steam freighter Rapid Transit.
Before modern highways existed, passenger ferries and steam freighters linked the entire Chesapeake Bay region.
The S S Bodegraven was an elderly steam freighter, serviceable for short hauls but not built for military action.
The remains of the steam freighter Storm King still rest here, in the river just north of the park, where she sank at her moorings in the 1930s.
Vicksburg British steam freighter stranded on the shore of Fire Island, New York, near Blue Point, during a storm in 1875.
On 14 June, U-38 sank the Greek steam freighter SS Mount Myrto.
The eighth and final ship sunk during U-38 eighth patrol was the British steam freighter SS Kingston Hill on 8 June.