Merchant marine service of the United Kingdom.
1No, he didn't: he'd been drafted into the merchant navy, not the army.
2The merchant navy, although numerous, was equally deficient in vessels of any size.
3Sir, -I qualified as a merchant navy officer at 19 years of age.
4Civilians-andmerchant navy-hadnever had a need for them before.
5They were taught maritime skills before their inevitable service in the royal or merchant navy.
6In his youth, he joined the Dutch merchant navy but returned to Amsterdam in 1962.
7Shackleton who had joined the merchant navy aged 16 thought of scientists as boring deadweights.
8All ships will be required to guard our coastline and to escort our merchant navy convoys.
9He was a working-class man among whose jobs was working as a stoker for the merchant navy.
10He had dreamed of being an officer in the merchant navy before politics took hold of him.
11It did not include the armed forces or merchant navy, where sex between men remained a criminal offence.
12One worked in the merchant navy.
13You were in the merchant navy.
14Like so many young people growing up in Liverpool in the sixties, I found work in the merchant navy.
15Despite having his illustrations published in Le Moustique magazine in his mid-teens, he wanted to join the merchant navy.
16That began in the 1980s, since when the number of British merchant navy officers has been cut by two-thirds.
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