In 1880 the canal transported 1,700 boatloads (about 108,000 tons) of iron ore. The Malaysian government towed any arriving boatloads of refugees to the island. Later that same day, two more boatloads of passengers and supplies were landed. The stranger disappears and Alfred is rewarded with three boatloads of fish. Meanwhile his ship, "The Darling" successfully repelled three boatloads of soldiers. The Virginia Company also imported boatloads of poor women to be sold as brides. They were later followed by boatloads of high-priority cargo&colon; ammunition and medical supplies. Subsequent convict boatloads had even higher rates of death and disease. By 1849 the railway was sending 90 boatloads of coal a year to Glasgow. You look like you have boatloads of chemistry with someone else.