Big brutes of oceangoing steamers floundering along in the dark, lowing out like seacows.
"Ulysses"
James Joyce
Smaller oceangoing craft are used in a limited amount of coastal trade.
"Area Handbook for Albania"
Eugene K. Keefe Sarah Jane Elpern William Giloane James M. Moore, Jr. Stephen Peters Eston T. White
He declared the possibility of navigating with oceangoing vessels the tortuous two-thousand-mile channel of the Ohio and the Mississippi River; and within sixteen years ships left the Ohio, crossed the Atlantic, and sailed into the Mediterranean.
"The Paths of Inland Commerce A Chronicle of Trail, Road, and Waterway, Volume 21 in The Chronicles of America Series"
Archer B. Hulbert