How To Use Merchant ship In A Sentence
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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
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The naval vessel escorted the merchant ship into port.
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On August 1, the aircraft in which Ramsay was flying was shot down leading an attack against merchant shipping.
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On merchant ships the sailors work largely in darkness below decks because oil is a precious thing.
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Destroyers escorted a convey of merchant ships.
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Chapter Eight On 14 July 1892, Maisie's son boarded a merchant ship and sailed away from his homeland.
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The merchant ship's hold had been emptied, and according to the crew some of their shipmates had been shanghaied by the pirates.
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However, it also led to fewer targets as many merchant ships in the area refused to sail the Sea of Marmora.
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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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Two weeks ago an Anacreonian merchant ship came across a derelict battle cruiser of the old Imperial navy.
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As well as being the senior ensign of the King's ships, the red ensign was also worn by merchant ships.
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Merchant shipping firms have generally avoided arming crew or security guards for reasons of safety, liability and conformity with the laws of the countries where they dock.
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The tops, crosstrees and caps of some merchant ships were also white, while clippers and warships and also many merchant ships preferred the more somber black.
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While plans were drawn up in case the raider was a pocket battleship and not just one of the many German merchant ships which had sneaked out of the sanctuary of a South American port and armed herself, the Admiralty signalled to Admiral Lyon and Commodore Harwood that the order recalling the 4th Destroyer Division was cancelled and they were "to be retained in the South Atlantic for the present.
Graf Spee
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The actual submarine specialized in surprise attacks on enemy merchant ships.
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Submarines were attacked by aircraft, airships, mines, Naval vessels (including submarines) and merchant ships.
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They sent naval forces to protect merchant shipping.
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The 1995 Merchant Shipping Act was an act to consolidate the Merchant Shipping Acts 1894 to 1994 and other enactments relating to merchant shipping.
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As well as being the senior ensign of the King's ships, the red ensign was also worn by merchant ships.
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The President said that the Baltic should be free to all nations for merchant shipping.
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the warships convoyed the merchant ships across the Pacific
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He was actually a privateer, a mercenary licensed by the government to loot merchant ships flying the colors of England's enemies -- mainly France and Spain," explained Wareham.
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Mercenaries had grown exponentially, and trade routes were risky, the merchant ships pillaged.
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As he approached the coastline he passed over a merchant ship.
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At twelve years of age, Verne ran off to be a cabin boy on a merchant ship, thinking he was going to have an adventure.
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The other common merchant ship layout is all holds forward with a superstructure aft.
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In the medieval period there was no absolute distinction between merchant ships and warships.
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Their merchant ship was reflagged last year.
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But it was for his successful plundering of Spanish merchant ships that he was knighted.
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They sent naval forces to protect merchant shipping.
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They sent naval forces to protect merchant shipping.
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Chapter Eight On 14 July 1892, Maisie's son boarded a merchant ship and sailed away from his homeland.
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These ships accounted for the sinking or damaging of a number of warships and merchant ships.
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It is very difficult, if not impossible, to compare the rates earned by ships under charter to the Navy Board with those of merchant ships carrying civilian cargoes.
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Throughout the entire conflict, the availability or non-availability of merchant shipping determined what the Allies could or could not do militarily.
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A "supercargo" was an officer of a merchant ship who was entrusted with the sale of the cargo and other commercial transactions.
Journal of a Lady of Quality; Being the Narrative of a Journey from Scotland to the West Indies, North Carolina, and Portugal, in the Years 1774 to 1776
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With his crew of cut-throats, Sinbad attacked defenceless merchant ships and did what pirates do, thankfully omitted here because this is a U-certificate cartoon from DreamWorks.
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Not only did warships have to be built in Australia but also repaired, merchant ships were also converted for war use.
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There came a gallant merchant ship full sail to Plymouth Bay;
The Canadian Elocutionist
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The terrible pirates attacked a merchant ship again.
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Spanish Merchant Ship, she not being carried _intra praesidia_, [5] but only plundered and let go.
Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period Illustrative Documents
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Scharnhorst, taking Rawalpindi for an unarmed merchant ship, signalled her to heave to.
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Aside from building railway carriages he also worked on merchant ships for the American cargo fleet.
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Yet, in 1914 the Navy appropriated sixty-nine merchant ships for use as auxiliary cruisers.
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Most of the pirates were on the merchant ship, and the good merchant sailors were greatly outnumbered.
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On merchant ships the sailors work largely in darkness below decks because oil is a precious thing.
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Four Italian coastguard vessels and a spotter plane were joined by at least nine passing merchant ships helping with the rescue operations yesterday.
Times, Sunday Times
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At sea German U-boats were sinking so many merchant ships that Britain was close to starvation.
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Built of English oak and Cornish elm, they are traditionally designed and locally built rowing boats originally used to deliver pilots to incoming merchant ships.
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The capacity of merchant ship in units of 100 cubic feet.
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With his crew of cut-throats, Sinbad attacked defenceless merchant ships and did what pirates do, thankfully omitted here because this is a U-certificate cartoon from DreamWorks.
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The Merchant Shipping Act of 1823 replaced bonding with a law that confined Lascars to East India Company boarding houses and threatened those who did not board the next ship home with imprisonment for vagrancy.
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Summer runs were deemed too risky, because foul winter weather provided far better cover for slow-moving merchant ships.
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In the past, ships could be held in reserve unmanned to be ready in emergency and further ships could be adapted from merchant vessels; today, the warship is too specialized for it to be effective from merchant ship conversion.
Sea Power in the 20th Century
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The plunder consisted of golden coins, jewels, bolts of cloth, and other valuables that would be found aboard a merchant ship returning home from a successful trading venture.
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He designed merchant ships and warships which were later to play a major role in the Second World War.
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Merchant shipping firms have generally avoided arming crew or security guards for reasons of safety, liability and conformity with the laws of the countries where they dock.
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Their success in picking off merchant ships proved very useful.
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Even though US shipyards were beginning to produce new merchant ships in record numbers, there was still a drop in overall available merchant and tanker tonnage.
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U-boats were attacked by aircraft, airships, Q-ships, mines, drifters, Naval vessels (including submarines) and merchant ships.
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It is very difficult, if not impossible, to compare the rates earned by ships under charter to the Navy Board with those of merchant ships carrying civilian cargoes.
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She gave protection to the merchant ships and sailors, and gave those ashore confidence that the vital supplies would always get through under her watchful eye.
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In 1940, the U-boats started to take a real toll against merchant shipping.
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These campaigns were narrowly defeated using a balanced force of Allied fleets, with opposing submarines, merchant ships convoyed by surface ships (primarily destroyers), and sea and land-based aviation.
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During the second world war he served in the Royal Navy as surgeon lieutenant, escorting convoys in the north Atlantic on HMS Maplin, a converted merchant ship which catapulted Hurricanes into combat.
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He is currently revising his dissertation, a study of World War II merchant shipbuilding on San Francisco Bay, for publication.
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Told in a dream of his impending return home, he made his way to the coast and joined a merchant ship, facing many dangers before rejoining his family.
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Destroyers escorted a convey of merchant ships.
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Merchant marine Britain's dependence on merchant shipping was an economic fact which total war heavily underlined.
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Built of English oak and Cornish elm, they are traditionally designed and locally built rowing boats originally used to deliver pilots to incoming merchant ships.
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A strong side wind caused the merchant ship to lie along.
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Four Italian coastguard vessels and a spotter plane were joined by at least nine passing merchant ships helping with the rescue operations yesterday.
Times, Sunday Times
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The fleet of merchant ships was as busy as Rome readying for war.
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This consisted of 16 merchant ships escorted by warships.
Times, Sunday Times
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A strong side wind caused the merchant ship to lie along.
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He examines the issue of merchant ships being used as Royal Navy auxiliaries for commerce raiding and patrol duties.
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It was a merchant ship and used for travels to Batavia.
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US agriculture, broadcasting, airlines and merchant shipping all enjoy some legal protection against foreign competition.
Times, Sunday Times
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Some 22,500 foreign merchant ships passed through in 1992, a 10 percent increase on the previous year.
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The two larger ships that dominated the center of the formation were clearly galleons: armed merchant ships.
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This merchant ship was convoyed by a destroyer.
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Britain was importing 60 per cent of its food and the sinking of merchant ships caused real shortages.
Times, Sunday Times
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The frigate Gelibolu, serving as part of a NATO anti-piracy mission, intercepted the pirate skiff while monitoring the security corridor for merchant shipping 80 miles from the coast on Wednesday, the statement said.
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Maarten Tromp defeated Blake off Dungeness in December 1652, but convoying Dutch merchant ships through the Channel proved difficult and the Dutch chief minister, Johan de Witt, settled for reasonable peace terms from Cromwell in 1654.
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A British schooner docked in Penzance yesterday carrying 30,000 bottles of wine on a voyage that enthusiasts believe will herald a return to wind power in merchant shipping.
Tall ships make a comeback as oil price hits exports « Isegoria
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GERMANY takes a gamble resuming submarine attacks on merchant ships.
The Sun
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a good crew, and being armed with two Whitworth rifled guns aft, one large 56-gun forward, and two 32s on her quarter-deck, and, being a fast sailer, is well suited to capture merchant ships, and run from war-vessels of superior armament but inferior speed.
Scenes on Board the Alabama
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Many of these were merchant ships from the Dutch East Indies Company and included the ships of Abel Tasman.
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As early as the fourteenth century Europeans had suspected that rats spread the plague from quarantined merchant ships to the port cities.
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During filming, the ship was called to a real-life drama when a Greek merchant ship caught fire, making the ship safe and fielding nine bravery awards into the bargain.
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They also welded together 5,200 merchant ships totalling 39 million gross tons.
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The US navy also took 50 merchant ships, while privateers took a further 450.
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In both world wars the merchant ships were requisitioned for troop transports, for hospital ships and for the carriage of cargoes for war service.
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The navy consisted of twenty ships at the maximum and about ten were supply and merchant ships.
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Merchant ships captured in war were often condemned.
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The disgraced Capt. Rolf Mueller is blackmailed by his superiors into helming a merchant ship packed with rubber cargo from Japan to Bordeaux.
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The English were informed of the Spanish movements and quickly assembled a fleet of mostly merchant ships.
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Without the help offered by passing merchant ships, the only signal it would be sending is one of callous indifference.
Times, Sunday Times
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Chen calculated an average of 50 seamen lose their lives and another 50 disappear without trace at sea each year aboard merchant ships and fishing boats.
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The Italian city-states kept squadrons of galleys and adapted carracks (merchant ships) to defend their ports against the Ottoman Turks.
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Britain was importing 60 per cent of its food and the sinking of merchant ships caused real shortages.
Times, Sunday Times
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But, if we must keep out of the Baltic because we are not yet strong enough to go in, and if our merchant ships must run the hazards of bubble mines and magnetic mines and pocket battleships and submarine's torpedoes for another hundred days and another hundred days-then I heartily endorse W.J. Stewart, M. P.P.'s condemnation of sneers at Canada's "tinpot" navy.
War With the Blinds Down
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During that time German and Italian submarines sank nearly 2,900 merchant ships, suffering 867 losses themselves.
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We gather this in the opening moments of the play when we hear that his ‘argosies’ (merchant ships), behaving ‘like signors and rich burghers’, are out on the sea.
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Were men for the Navy recruited from men on merchant ships?
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This consisted of 16 merchant ships escorted by warships.
Times, Sunday Times
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Exactly speaking, in the late Tokugawa period, with Russian merchant shipping's arrival at Ezo for trade in 1778 as the pivot, the theory of maritime state came forth.
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Four Italian coastguard vessels and a spotter plane were joined by at least nine passing merchant ships helping with the rescue operations yesterday.
Times, Sunday Times
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And the huge sliding doors on both sides allow for the kind of access normally offered by the cargo holds of large merchant ships.
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All three navies also built many war emergency types: converted liners, light carriers based on cruiser hulls, and escort carriers based on merchant ship designs.
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When Britain entered the war against Republican France in 1793, however, the United States had already declared its neutrality, and the following year had concluded a treaty with Britain that protected American merchant ships and provided for trade with the British West Indies.
The Mistaken Wife
