timber ship

Lumbering, Hist.

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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Quotations

1903

[In Quebec] the thirteen Canadian prisoners were put on board a timber ship and sent to England.

1963

There the great timbers were loaded on the "timber ships," old ships at the end of their days, and freighted to the British Isles.