cargo of bananas

In 1878 they shipped their first cargo of bananas to England.

In November 1999 the Nab was hit by a freighter ship, the Dole-America, carrying a cargo of bananas and pineapples.

Each morning in the 1960s there would be a line of two-wheel traffic heading for the 'sokoni' or marketplace with cargoes of bananas or sacks of charcoal.

He intended to return to the city with a cargo of bananas, and shook his stick fiercely at the Congolese women who tried to clamber onto his massively loaded truck for a ride.

After an uneventful career carrying cargoes of bananas from the German colony of Kamerun to Germany she was requisitioned by the Imperial German Navy for use as a minelayer.

This ban continued until 30 December 1945 when the SS Tilapa, flying the Fyffes Line flag, arrived in the UK with the first cargo of bananas to be seen for over five years.

The marijuana-smuggling scheme, which involved issuing false papers indicating that a Panamanian freighter had a cargo of bananas, was not carried out because Mr. Kalish was arrested in Tampa, Fla., in the summer of 1984.

He thought the docks, occupied by abandoned warehouses where a century ago ships unloaded their cargoes of bananas from the Canary Islands, could provide vast, inexpensive space to house the back-office operations of securities firms like Credit Suisse First Boston.

The last time I had heard it was on the bridge of the steamer Yarraman, lying in the land-locked harbour of Cairns, on the Eastern Queensland coast; a canoeful of darkies were jabbering alongside, and a cargo of bananas was being shipped aboard.