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merchant ship

NOUN
  1. a cargo ship
    they did much of their overseas trade in foreign bottoms

How To Use merchant ship In A Sentence

  • FBI Special Agent Chip Cleancut, releasing the e-fit image of the wanted man, said, this man represents a clear and present danger to US merchant shipping, and to the national security of the United States of America. Archive 2009-04-01
  • The naval vessel escorted the merchant ship into port.
  • On August 1, the aircraft in which Ramsay was flying was shot down leading an attack against merchant shipping.
  • On merchant ships the sailors work largely in darkness below decks because oil is a precious thing.
  • Destroyers escorted a convey of merchant ships.
  • Chapter Eight On 14 July 1892, Maisie's son boarded a merchant ship and sailed away from his homeland.
  • FRANKFURT — Two German merchant ships have traversed the fabled Northeast Passage after global warming and melting ice opened a route from South Korea along ... Jennifer Schwab: Renewable Energy -- Not in My Backyard!
  • The merchant ship's hold had been emptied, and according to the crew some of their shipmates had been shanghaied by the pirates.
  • However, it also led to fewer targets as many merchant ships in the area refused to sail the Sea of Marmora.
  • Ten merchant ships were used as armed merchant raiders, or auxiliary cruisers, and a few were employed as blockade runners between Japan and Germany.
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