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The system began in 1948 as the Chilkoot Motorship Lines, a private company that used a former U.S.

The Hans Hedtoft, a diesel-powered motorship, went down the ways of Denmark's Frederikshavn shipyard last August, small but sturdy and trim.

"Christian General," as he was sailing back to China "to help overthrow" Chiang Kaishek; in a fire aboard the Russian motorship Pobeda, in the Black Sea.

As Party Boss Khrushchev stepped jauntily forward and cut the ribbon stretched across the lock gates, he beamed a toothy smile at cheering excursionists aboard the motorship Dmitry Pozharsky, the first vessel to pass through the locks.

On a clear, moonlit night, the 9,786-ton Norwegian motorship Skaubryn plowed through the long swells of the Indian Ocean, six days south of Suez, bound for Australia with 1,088 passengers�mostly German and Maltese emigrants�and a crew of 200.