Civilian boat or ship that transports cargo or carries passengers for hire.
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Hamed said he had been saved by the Panamanian-registered merchant vessel, Pegasus.
2
A passing merchant vessel picked up two other members of the crew.
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Well-to-do, he seemed; the mate of a merchant vessel he might be.
4
There were three Norwegian, two Swedish, and one Danish merchant vessel sunk.
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The boats had now got within hail of the merchant vessel.
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On a merchant vessel they would merely put him in irons.
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We were on board a merchant vessel of the smallest type.
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He, however, before long got home in an English merchant vessel.
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Even without arms it might easily sink an unarmed merchant vessel by ramming.
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She was picked up by a merchant vessel bound for Havana.
11
She was a merchant vessel, and might have measured some two hundred tons.
12
Well, that depends upon what you may call a merchant vessel.
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A second merchant vessel was due to arrive Friday night.
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Two years later, however, he went out in a merchant vessel to the Indies.
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I avail myself of a merchant vessel going from Havre, to write the present.
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The merchant vessel caught fire after being hit by bullets and a rocket-propelled grenade.