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Meaning of "merchantmen"
Merchantmen are large merchant ships or vessels used for transporting goods and cargo. The term is commonly used in the context of maritime trade and shipping industries to refer to commercial ships that carry goods across seas and oceans
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None of the merchantmen suffered any fatalities.
The orders were repeated to the nearest merchantmen.
Most of the merchantmen she was escorting escaped.
She escaped after burning the merchantmen.
Arming merchantmen was quite usual in those days.
More captures or recaptures of merchantmen followed.
Seventy merchantmen zigzagging in a gale at night.
How do you presume an english merchantmen will react.
Several other merchantmen were damaged at the same time.
Quick more like merchantmen.
The merchantmen had been engaged in the evacuation of refugees.
They go after rich merchantmen and the like.
Several merchantmen were immediately purchased and refitted as ships of war.
All ships were armed merchantmen.
The number of merchantmen damaged and destroyed is disputed.
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Maybe four or five merchantmen on.
Open to merchantmen of all nations.
The economic base of the city was as earlier merchantmen and fishery.
Sinkings of merchantmen dropped off.
The navy was used for reconnaissance as well as attacks on merchantmen and warships.
Arm the merchantmen by law.
He captured two English privateers and three merchantmen.
To this end she assembled merchantmen into convoys protected by warships.
While on escort duty they captured three German merchantmen.
Knowing that the merchantmen would send theirwives and children out.
They are unlike merchantmen.
Two more merchantmen were sunk by air attack in Murmansk harbour.
The destroyer entered the harbour with the two merchantmen that survived the convoy.
Most of the merchantmen were later intercepted and captured in the West Indies.
Waddell had already captured and disposed of thirteen Union merchantmen.
Many also felt that steam merchantmen should be clearly distinguishable from warships.
The deficiency in the Dutch navy was to be made good by arming merchantmen.
Six English merchantmen in the past month.
I heard when Flint took merchantmen.
Merchantmen in every port of the Ottoman Empire.
The English accused some merchantmen captains of cowardice.
At this time the Continental Navy consisted of converted merchantmen.
Merchantmen as the German Government has used it.
At the end of the year he escorted a convoy of merchantmen from England to Barbados.
Later German merchantmen also established tradinghouses in Novgorod.
This in turn interfered with the trade of British merchantmen in China.
Rigged merchantmen ; particularly used in.
Not only the Eldar preyed upon the transports and merchantmen of the Imperium.
Frequently, captured merchantmen would volunteer to join the pirate crew.
Are we authorized to sink unarmed merchantmen and tankers?
Crossing merchantmen (Marus) and escorts might put themselves in the way of a torpedo.
The ship was one of the first British merchantmen sunk during the Second World War.
Antiaircraft fire downed the first, but the second and third succeeded in crashing into merchantmen.
And go back to hunting fat, lazy merchantmen and everyone will be content.
In history, all the ships that defeated the French squadron were merchantmen.
