tramp steamer
Noun
Meaning
tramp steamer (plural tramp steamers)
(nautical) a commercial steamship that has no regular schedule or published ports of call.
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I don't have any great first job tales: I've never worked on a tramp steamer or in a coal mine or anything like that. I think the inspiration for my writing came largely from my father and the joy that life in books represented to me.
A typical Q-ship might resemble a tramp steamer sailing alone in an area where a U-boat was reported to be operating.
Bogart resisted Huston's insistence on using real leeches in a key scene where Charlie has to drag his tramp steamer through an infested marsh, until reasonable fakes were employed.
Following completion of the interior scenes, Schoedsack returned to San Pedro and spent a day on a tramp steamer to film the scene of Driscoll punching Ann, and various atmospheric harbor scenes.