Civilian boat or ship that transports cargo or carries passengers for hire.
1Hamed said he had been saved by the Panamanian-registered merchant vessel, Pegasus.
2A passing merchant vessel picked up two other members of the crew.
3Well-to-do, he seemed; the mate of a merchant vessel he might be.
4There were three Norwegian, two Swedish, and one Danish merchant vessel sunk.
5The boats had now got within hail of the merchant vessel.
6On a merchant vessel they would merely put him in irons.
7We were on board a merchant vessel of the smallest type.
8He, however, before long got home in an English merchant vessel.
9Even without arms it might easily sink an unarmed merchant vessel by ramming.
10She was picked up by a merchant vessel bound for Havana.
11She was a merchant vessel, and might have measured some two hundred tons.
12Well, that depends upon what you may call a merchant vessel.
13A second merchant vessel was due to arrive Friday night.
14Two years later, however, he went out in a merchant vessel to the Indies.
15I avail myself of a merchant vessel going from Havre, to write the present.
16The merchant vessel caught fire after being hit by bullets and a rocket-propelled grenade.
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