passenger-vessel

Updated: May 2, 2025

Then at intervals up to midnight came other messages telling of the sinking of other vessels until the victims of the undersea craft numbered four British, a Dutch, and a Scandinavian vessel, one of them, the Halifax liner Stephana, a passenger-vessel, with Americans on board.

Lawrence Perry - Our Navy in the War

They have sailed the seas from John o' Groats to Tokio: and to them New York is merely a jaunt. One of the latter, who was a passenger-vessel officer, attracted a deal of attention at an East English port by his indefatigable labour and fearlessness in his risky job, until he was rewarded for more than two years of grinning at death by the Distinguished Service Cross.

Mordaunt Hall - Some Naval Yarns