merchantman
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As no U. S. warship big enough to carry the work of art to the U. S. was handy, the Government chartered the merchantman Sea for $6,300.
From Time Magazine Archive
Besides, who would want to sink an unarmed merchantman?
From Time Magazine Archive
He lost the sight of one eye landing his aircraft and sank a merchantman from a torpedo boat.
From Time Magazine Archive
Months of leisurely study showed the wreck to be a small merchantman about 30 ft. long.
From Time Magazine Archive
One was a barque, evidently a large merchantman; the other a brigantine.
From A Roving Commission Or, Through the Black Insurrection at Hayti by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)
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