immigrant ships
Vessels carrying newcomers
Immigrant ships are vessels that transport people emigrating from one country to another.
The term typically evokes the crowded steamships and sailing vessels that carried millions of Europeans to America in the 19th and early 20th centuries: Her great-grandparents arrived on an immigrant ship through Ellis Island.
The phrase can apply to any era's migration vessels, from colonial transports to modern refugee boats.
- steerageShip's cheapest quarters
- lower decksShip's bottom levels
- Ellis IslandHistoric immigrant processing center
- port of entryAuthorized border crossing location
- promised landHoped-for place of fulfillment
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Vessels transporting felons overseas
merchant vessels · cargo ships · transport ships · freighters
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Vessels transporting enslaved people
convict ships · prison ships · coffin ships · transport ships · ghost ships
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Vessels for transporting goods
container ships · freight vessels · tankers · merchant ships
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