merchantman
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The Compass Island is a 17,600-ton converted merchantman, commanded by James A. Dare.
From Time Magazine Archive
Instead, he found himself on the "front porch" of an openwork biplane, learning to fly, then teaching himself the dangerous art of taking off from the deck of a merchantman.
From Time Magazine Archive
Target: a guinea-pig fleet of three destroyers, a submarine, a merchantman and ten barges.
From Time Magazine Archive
Heavily outgunned, the merchantman made every shell count.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is probable that we should not interfere were it not for the possibility that we may be in time to save some of the passengers and crew of the merchantman.
From A Roving Commission Or, Through the Black Insurrection at Hayti by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)
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