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Definition of Supercargo

Supercargo
Supercargo Su`per*car"go, n. [Super- + cargo: cf. Sp. sobrecargo. Cf. Surcharge.] An officer or person in a merchant ship, whose duty is to manage the sales, and superintend the commercial concerns, of the voyage.

Meaning of Supercargo from wikipedia

- Look up supercargo in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A supercargo (from Italian sopracargo or from Spanish sobrecargo[citation needed]) is a person...
- After a two-year voyage on one of the East India Company's ships as a supercargo, Thistlewood returned to England briefly at 29 and decided to s**** employment...
- supercargo; a large East Indiamen might have five or more, which were ranked "chief supercargo", "2nd supercargo", and so on. A team of supercargos divided...
- September 2023. Stumpf, Rob (18 July 2017). "The Forgotten Steinwinter Supercargo Is Unlike Anything on the Road Today". The Drive. Operators Handbook-DM...
- resident on each island to instead becoming a business operation where the supercargo (the cargo manager of a trading ship) would deal directly with the islanders...
- plundered a United States ship, the Candace from Marblehead. The ship's supercargo, allegedly an amateur actor, disguised himself as a Roman Catholic priest...
- lived and worked among Pacific Islands and Islanders as a trader, ship's supercargo, and villager for some two decades, learning languages and observing natural...
- (Atafu) PELETI Mohe Maota Cook 24 Tokelau (Fakaofo) WALLWORK James William Supercargo 44 Western Samoa WILLIAMS George Kendall Supercargo 66 New Zealand...
- Empress of China, to sail from the United States. Thomas H. Perkins was his supercargo and established strong ties with the Chinese and garnered the Forbes fortune...
- Galveston from Matagorda Bay on 15 May 1817. A year later, João was appointed supercargo for trade with the Karankawa Indians. La****e left in 1820, and João later...