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Solomon Browne was despatched to save those aboard the Union Star freighter that had flooded engines and ripped its anchor chain
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Hopefully she could get enough money from Herndon that she wouldn't have to tend sail on a freighter to get home, she hadn't brought much with her and with all his fortunes he often balked at paying for her yaag
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In the past I'd condemned the tales of the old Cornish wreckers, the poverty-stricken coastal villagers who misguided freighters onto rocks in a grasp for survival, but now I understood and was playing my part in condemning the robbers on the Kaliantikos to their deaths
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The freighter’s captain was shouting orders to seamen in the rigging
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“First officer on an interplanetary freighter, a ship called Galileo Six
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The small freighter is only two kilometres away, still on direct course for the station
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“So why would a freighter be calling at the station?”
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Radar, watch that freighter like a hawk
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“Sir! The freighter has changed course,” announced the radar operator suddenly, “She’s just turned 30 degrees and on her new course should cross near our bow
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The interplanetary freighter has not moved at all
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“Sir, request we redirect the main screen to show the interplanetary freighter
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small freighter moving past with its load of china clay ready for
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and a true ship of the seas, a freighter with two smokestacks,
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Hartle parked beside a derelict freighter out of curiousity
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Sometimes when they were nosing up to a big freighter and nudging them into a secure orbit, it felt pretty good
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Langford was motioning with his hands and calling for quiet, but before he could speak, another American joined the group, and Colling concluded that he must be the freighter’s captain
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Colling could not see how any shots from the gun could reach the cutter, which was too close to the freighter’s hull and out of its line of fire
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Elizabeth added that the tide must have changed, because the freighter was due to leave on the outgoing flood
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They met no patrol boats, although they did pass scattered clusters of fishing boats and caught glimpses of the occasional freighter on the horizon
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They had seen some fishing boats and freighters, but no naval vessels, since the encounter with the cutter
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Colling debated with himself about hailing one of the passing freighters and seeking medical attention for the fisherman
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In the distance, I could make out a freighter, laden down with huge containers, its lights winking in the darkness
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The Asian Symphony is a real 170,000 tonne freighter and was washed into the city of
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He was holding the freighter back with the sheer force of a red wall of energy, his eyes glowing with red light
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She’d seen that her powers couldn't hurt me, and she now redoubled her efforts into the freighter
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As the story goes, a boat lies nowadays under the water after a terrible accident that occurred when the captain of a freighter tried to negotiate passage between two columns
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The bridge was rebuilt, but an irregularity of distance can be observed between the two newer columns, and the freighter still remains under water
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By the time I stowed away on a freighter leaving New
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The previous week, USCGC Mackinaw and the 140-foot cutter Neah Bay penetrated the icy waters to help several freighters navigate in waters frozen from an early Midwestern cold snap
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The 750 ton freighter was 32
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A mining colony this far out of the way didn't see much traffic and rarely saw anyone outside of routine visits from commercial freighters and the occasional transport
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Shen acknowledged and, a moment later, a hovering 3D model of a rebuilt freighter appeared, replacing the image of Aleator
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"I've been reviewing the details of the engagement between the Phoenix and those Rotham freighters,” said Calvin
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"But not a lot for four freighters worth of cargo," said Summers
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Four freighters and a sleek-looking attack cruiser which closed in and exchanged fire
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The Phoenix cut in close and opened up a full broadside—its mounted m90’s eventually shredded the freighter’s hull but not nearly as quickly as they should have
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Now I dare you to find any standard freighter that can do that
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It's a Rotham class C freighter and
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"Response from the freighter," said Sarah
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I expected the freighters to be destroyed within seconds but, and this is strange, the Rotham pilots performed an evasive maneuver
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Much more than I'd expect from freighters
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” And there in the glistening early morning sun lay a small freighter next to us
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All of the nearly five hundred German commercial freighters and passenger liners which had survived the war had been seized by the Allies
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I understand that a shipment of theirs was found on a freighter just before leaving Klong Toey port which is situated in the heart of southeast Bangkok
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Since the rain had stopped earlier and the weather had improved, they had seen a number of cruisers, trawlers and other fishing boats plus a coastal freighter, heading south through the island seaway
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"We have a three year lease on a fleet of three Airbus freighters, which will make daily flights
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They stumbled into a pirate assault on a convoy of freighters
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Greg and Avi left the flight deck together as if they were attending a formal occasion wearing fancy clothes instead of touring a space going freighter in flight suits
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The destroyer approached the small freighter and circled it with its weapons pods extended
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They would spend hours in the small shopping mall that had been built to service the families who populated the increasing numbers of emigrants leaving the central system, tramp freighters and treasure hunters
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The big ones were still prohibitively expensive, but the smaller ones that could power a scout, small yacht or tramp freighter had almost become disposable commodities
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We have freighter pilots who travel in hyper between here and the central system, but none of them have been trained in combat
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The ship approached slowly the way a heavily loaded freighter would approach the system
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The freighter’s running lights glowed with the dim light that indicated failing batteries
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Still, she thought she knew all the large freighters that had been taken by pirates in the previous twenty years and she didn’t remember this one
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Few freighters were armed and what defenses they had were easily disabled
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Sabrina advanced slowly, warily, toward the drifting freighter
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She launched the probe that would seek out the freighter’s maintenance override access panel
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She had fended off a dozen pirate attacks on the scheduled freighters that passed by her station
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The unarmed freighter was on the regularly scheduled run between two mining outposts
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The freighter’s trajectory would take it across her current course with plenty of room to spare
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One appeared to be a pirate and the other was squealing a distress message in the freighter’s direction requesting assistance from the freighter
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The freighter pilot would later report watching in amazement as Lt
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in the freighter’s hold and the other two were attached to the docking ports
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Sabrina hyper jumped back to the freighter to defend it
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The other P I ships could not get back to the freighter in time to protect it and were heavily engaged with the interceptors
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Even with the few missiles she had left, her lasers and the freighter’s lasers, four of the drones got through and detonated the cargo ship’s reactor
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decoy freighter and ending with her decision to bring Captain Darwin for help
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Pam and Tina had elected to return to regular duty and were already on a shuttle that would take them to a freighter for the trip to New St
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“Stellar Interstellar is evaluating the purchase of several hundred freighters from Valiant Industries based on the design of the P A F warship you destroyed
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I have thousands of freighter crew members out there who know it works
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These modules were in fact complete freighters which normally operated on the smaller runs
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Nestled between the three reactors attached to the freighter modules was a fourth fusion reactor attached to the center trusses that ran the length of the ship
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Nestled between the trusses, the passenger ship portion would be gutted to provide common galleys, schools and the kinds of support that would be more efficient centralized rather than distributed among three freighter modules which were lacking in amenities
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Larger ships like the biggest freighters were built in sections on the surface of the moon, and those sections were assembled at the orbiting station
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Gantries and partially completed freighters covered a huge expanse of the moon
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They were supported by entire fleets of small and medium class ships as well as convoys of freighters
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The frame to which the three freighters and the reactors would be attached was almost finished in the yard
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The three freighters had arrived, and their modifications were almost complete
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While the crews on the giant freighters that made up the bulk of the convoy wiled away the two weeks in transit with a variety of entertainments, Elizabeth and her crew trained intensively knowing that some day they would be glad they did
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Of the half dozen freighters in the convoy, Warren had insisted that they travel on one particular freighter piloted by an old friend with whom he had traveled many times
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The captain of the freighter was a portly old man who, with his wife, had piloted freighters for half a century
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Warren had instructed his freighter pilots that anyone from Eretz who wished to join the
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“Studio ships are generally converted freighters
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The converted Saturn Industries Class Seven freighter immediately hailed the four ships
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A week after their creation, the “Fourth” was preparing to relieve Alexander and Valerie on patrol when Aida called, “We have incoming! One ship! Appears to be a freighter!” Alexander transmitted the coordinates to the other ships
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They had killed the pirates that had tried to board the freighter while it waited for rescue
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“Several of our freighter captains have reviewed this design,” Fiona said
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“But we have cabin space on our freighters that would go empty,” Barbara said
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Since the small freighters can be loaded in the light gravity of many of the planetary moons, the loading process is therefore safer than loading in weightlessness
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The freighter crews were released to return to duty
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Saul and Fiona sat to eat as one of the kids who had accompanied the Fourth on the “rescue mission” that covered Saul and Fiona’s arrival described his reactions to the combat that had ensued when real pirates attacked the supposedly crippled freighter
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“Tab, for your first mission, pirates knew we had a freighter in distress when we met at a carefully selected point in the middle of nowhere
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Two old large freighters moved slowly away from the periphery of the bone yard where they had sat like sleeping dragons for the last two years
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Fewer than a dozen people knew the contents of these two supposedly out of service freighters
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Two of the biggest freighters in port had been damaged enough that they would be out of action for a few months
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Jared reported that by rescheduling smaller freighters he would have enough capacity to handle the traffic
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The decision was made to repair the freighters in the Stellar shipyard but repairs to the military craft would be sub-contracted to others
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It spent half a year in training exercises with Kim and appears to have ridden most of the way here on a freighter
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The engines were only restarted after the freighter ride about six months ago