Examples of 'merchantman' in a sentence

Meaning of "merchantman"

Merchantman is a noun referring to a large ship used for commercial purposes, typically in trading goods or cargo
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  • A merchant.
  • A cargo ship, engaged in commercial activities, as opposed to a warship.

How to use "merchantman" in a sentence

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A merchantman was also saved at the same period.
Yet she has the lines of a merchantman.
The merchantman was already moving.
It was common gossip aboard that merchantman.
She captured a German merchantman shortly after the war began.
We found him so in the fore peak of the merchantman.
Surcouf released the passengers on a merchantman that he stopped a few days later.
She spent the rest of her career as a merchantman.
Of this convoy cruiser Yasoshima a merchantman and three landing ships went to the bottom.
Here and there a lantern gleamed at the stern of some huge merchantman.
Watch that merchantman.
Having served under Admiral Hawke before he came a merchantman.
April brought another unsuccessful attack on a merchantman and an attempt to close a warship.
El Gamo was subsequently sold to the ruler of Algiers as a merchantman.
Surcouf put them into a passing Arab merchantman and they arrived shortly thereafter in Calcutta.

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She then made a voyage to India as a merchantman.
Then sailed as a merchantman trading with North America.
She then became a merchantman.
She was an American merchantman on her way to New York via Tenerife.
Taken for a large merchantman.
Instead, the merchantman began preparations for getting underway.
Crocus became a merchantman.
The merchantman stopped without the raider 's firing a shot.
After the war she went on to sail as a merchantman for several years.
Like a merchantman seeking beautiful pearls ; and having found one pearl of.
He will make the old Avenger a merchantman yet.
Were you on the merchantman or the pirate ship?
The destroyer had to put into Liverpool for repairs and the merchantman sank.
Landon, there is a Japanese merchantman heading into the straits.
I remember coming round Cape Horn on this merchantman.
From the Fort James British merchantman and hospital ship.
Besides, it looked more like a warship than a merchantman.
Moments later, the Merchantman was fully loaded and lifting off.
The feint successfully deceived the enemy and Endicott sank a German merchantman during the bombardment.
Yes? She was an American merchantman on her way to New York via Tenerife.
There I was taken aboard a merchantman.
Why not try the wider sea With merchantman or privateer? I am native, rooted here.
Instead, she was sold for service as a merchantman.
The merchantman has tacked and is trying to get away . ".
La Lavia was a Venetian merchantman.
The Banu Merchantman is not just a ship, it 's a home and a way of life.
The commander of a ship of war, or of a merchantman.
May, the merchantman Hound.
Neither the peasant ploughing the field, nor the merchantman sailing onward.
A merchantman brig by Captain Reeves, this last 12 months and one. commandeered from the Spanish fleet.
He spent some time at sea, as captain of a merchantman owned by his father.
This British merchantman was carrying 1,000 bales of cotton at the time of her capture.
And at this time, you sighted a Japanese merchantman.
She rescued survivors from the torpedoed merchantman MV Olaf Fostenes on 26 September.
Yet, the Kingdom of the heavens is like this foolish merchantman.

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