merchantman in English

noun
1
a ship used in commerce; a vessel of the merchant marine.
More than 50 British warships, survey vessels, training ships and auxiliaries will be joined by more than 120 foreign warships, merchantmen and tall ships in a review formation at Spithead.
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1. Of this convoy, cruiser Yasoshima, a merchantman, and three landing ships were sunk.

2. 12 Our cog was a sturdy merchantman escorted by a small man-of-war.

3. 23 Because there are many galleys to convoy and patrol in the gulf of Aden, piracy has changed way to hijack merchantman.

4. On 12 August 1915, a Royal Naval Air Service Short 184 floatplane torpedo bomber sank a Turkish merchantman in the Sea of Marmara.

5. On 4 March, she screened the merchantman into Tulagi harbor; fueled at Port Purvis; then took station ahead of SS Mormacwren for a voyage to Efate.

6. On 6 November 1941, she and the cruiser USS Omaha captured the German freighter Odenwald which was carrying 3800 tons of scarce rubber while disguised as the American merchantman Willmoto.