Meanings of norwegian freighter in English

As a young man James McNeish left Auckland a deckhand on a Norwegian freighter.

A year later the 250-foot Norwegian freighter Iristo suffered an identical fate while trying to avoid her.

A French fishing boat sank after a collision overnight with a Norwegian freighter off the north-west coast of France, a local coastal official said today.

In August, the Australian authorities came under intense international pressure when they turned away a group of 433 mainly Afghan asylum-seekers on a Norwegian freighter.

In 2001, a high-seas standoff between commandos and 433 Afghans on the Norwegian freighter Tampa put border security at the heart of national politics.

In August 2001, Australia denied Norwegian freighter Tampa entrance to its waters, after the ship rescued 433 asylum seekers from a sinking Indonesian fishing boat.