6 sentences with 'aboard'

Example sentences and phrases with the word aboard and other words derived from it.

« The slaves aboard the ships were so cramped that they could not move for most of the journey, and slave ship captains calculated into their profit margins the fact that a significant percentage of their human cargo would die along the way - over a million slaves died during the Middle Passage in the 17th and 18th centuries as a result. »
« Darwin based his arguments both on the fossil record and on what he had discovered as a naturalist aboard a British research vessel, the HMS Beagle, which travelled along the coast of South America and visited the Galapagos Islands off its western coast. »
« While on his way to Rio de Janeiro aboard the English ship La Fama, Mariano Moreno fell ill and died on 4 March 1811. He was only 33 years old. »
« The story of the 102 emigrants who crossed the Atlantic aboard the Mayflower and their struggle for survival is a well-known narrative of the country's founding. »
« Each year, slaves or native labourers loaded cargoes of gold and silver aboard the Spanish treasure fleets that sailed from Cuba to Spain. »
« They held American prisoners aboard ships in the waters surrounding New York City; the death toll was appalling, with thousands perishing in the holds. »
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