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merchant navy
- the ships or crew engaged in a nation's commercial shipping
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“I was in the Merchant Navy at 16, which is inexplicable to me to this day—I am a wimp, really,” he said.
At the end of my two years at home I was sent to sea in the merchant navy by my own earnest desire.
If the plan were found feasible this public merchant navy would be a large source of extra revenue.
But France seems to bear this with great equanimity so far as our merchant navy is concerned.
Railroads would cover the continents; the merchant navy of the globe would be increased a hundredfold.
Restrict commerce, and at the same time create a merchant navy.
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