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Merchant marine

noun

The crew of a merchant vessel.

Conveyance provided by the ships belonging to one country or industry. Synonyms: cargo ships, merchant vessels, shipping.

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"Merchant marine" Quotes from Famous Books

... last birthday. I was in the merchant marine for upwards of eighty years, and then became a Swedenborgian, but never had occasion to consult an oculist. I was born in the reign of George II., or was it Queen Anne?—I really forget which. My wife is 163, and we walk out, when ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, June 17, 1914 • Various

... self-interest and un-American limitation of output, dressed by the Citizens' Alliance in the language of the Declaration of Independence, lies a quiet economic reason for the hostility. Just as slavery was about to go because it did not pay, and America stopped building a merchant marine because it was cheaper to hire England to transport American goods, so the American Trust, as soon as it had power, abolished the American trade-union because it found it costly. What then are these economic causes which account for ...

— An American Idyll - The Life of Carleton H. Parker • Cornelia Stratton Parker

... summary warning of "strict accountability?" Even as the question was asked, we heard that the Germans had sunk the Lusitania. On the 7th of May, 1915, at two in the afternoon, the pride of the British merchant marine was struck by two torpedoes fired from a German submarine. She sank in half an hour. More than eleven hundred of her passengers and crew were drowned, among them one hundred and twenty-four Americans, ...

— Woodrow Wilson and the World War - A Chronicle of Our Own Times. • Charles Seymour

... still at his lecture on the needs of our American merchant marine when Pickering passed hurriedly, crossed the track and began speaking earnestly to the girl ...

— The House of a Thousand Candles • Meredith Nicholson

... you're a soldier, better than barracks, hein? Dirty life that. I'll never be a soldier. I'm going into the navy. Merchant marine, and then if I have to do service I'll do it on ...

— Three Soldiers • John Dos Passos

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