merchantman
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merchantmen
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Months of leisurely study showed the wreck to be a small merchantman about 30 ft. long.
From Time Magazine Archive
Target: a guinea-pig fleet of three destroyers, a submarine, a merchantman and ten barges.
From Time Magazine Archive
It pulled a sailor off the deck of a nearby merchantman, and tossed him up to the top of a hill half a mile away.
From Time Magazine Archive
He raced to the deck of the U.S. merchantman just in time to stop a shower of splinters from the first shell.
From Time Magazine Archive
As soon as the disguised merchantman spotted this enemy she began to behave in character.
From The Victory At Sea by Hendrick, Burton J.
At his command, the Navy fought and won a number of battles with French warships harassing American merchantmen in the Atlantic and the Caribbean.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2016
During the Spanish Civil War "pirate" submarines torpedoed British and French merchantmen.
From Time Magazine Archive
Vainly Mr. Stimson tried to show them that submarines were useless against battleships, that they served only as weapons of uncivilized warfare against unarmed merchantmen.
From Time Magazine Archive
Soon the harbor of St. Johns teemed with captured U. S. merchantmen.
From Time Magazine Archive
This was the city’s biggest inn, first choice for shippers, captains, and merchantmen.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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