NOUN
- the crew of a merchant vessel
- conveyance provided by the ships belonging to one country or industry
How To Use merchant marine In A Sentence
- Merchant Marine Academy in 1969, my educated dad was happy. Standard Oil of California had hired me for its oil- tanker fleet.
- The merchant marine ministry said that three of those on board were unconscious. Times, Sunday Times
- A former merchant marine officer, Webb declared that he intended to conquer the rapids of the gorge below the suspension bridge.
- The devastation of our merchant marine, predicted as long ago as 1905, has happened - not through war, but, rather, official purblindness.
- From the great American forests would come the timber and naval stores needed to build a bigger navy and merchant marine. The American Nation: A History of the United States to 1877
- The empire lacked a large merchant marine, a fact that weakened its effort on the seas. World History: Patterns of Change and Continuity
- The merchant marine ministry said that three of those on board were unconscious. Times, Sunday Times
- In the merchant marine figureheads portraying the skip's owner or builder and their wives, daughters, or sweethearts were popular.
- Later he decides to enter the Merchant Marine Academy at Kings Point, on the advice of the man whose car he has simonized.
- He served in the merchant marines as a boatswain and a machinist's mate when ships were going to places of interest.
