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On summer breaks from university, Gilmore also worked at the port, painting buildings, shoveling coal on a steamship and crewing on harbor boats.
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Bloomberg, Mercury News, 11 June 2026
On summer breaks from university, Gilmore also worked at the port, painting buildings, shoveling coal on a steamship and crewing on harbor boats.
—Bloomberg, Oc Register, 10 June 2026
Other ancestors had fled aboard the Mayflower from the persecution of Puritans in England, aboard a steamship from pogroms in Ukraine, aboard a schooner from Spanish repression in Cuba.
—Yoni Appelbaum, The Atlantic, 8 June 2026
When the South seceded from the United States in order to maintain slavery as a legal practice, Clemens left behind Hannibal and the steamships.
—Trevor Hughes, USA Today, 31 May 2026
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Bloomberg, Mercury News, 11 June 2026
On summer breaks from university, Gilmore also worked at the port, painting buildings, shoveling coal on a steamship and crewing on harbor boats.
—Bloomberg, Oc Register, 10 June 2026
Other ancestors had fled aboard the Mayflower from the persecution of Puritans in England, aboard a steamship from pogroms in Ukraine, aboard a schooner from Spanish repression in Cuba.
—Yoni Appelbaum, The Atlantic, 8 June 2026
When the South seceded from the United States in order to maintain slavery as a legal practice, Clemens left behind Hannibal and the steamships.
—Trevor Hughes, USA Today, 31 May 2026
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“Steamship.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/steamship. Accessed 22 Jun. 2026.
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steamship
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steam·ship
ˈstēm-ˌship 
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