Merchantman Sentence Examples

The Lord Stewart was 248 foot long, 1445 ton armed merchantman.

He pointed out the disadvantage of a submarine in attempting to stop such an armed vessel for search, and emphasized that armament on a merchantman had every appearance of being offensive.

Early in the year he captured a valuable Spanish merchantman off Ferrol.

She later damaged another merchantman and scored four hits on the Kent Class cruiser HMS Berwick before withdrawing.

In June 1748 FOX brought into Kinsale a French merchantman of 230 tons bound to Bordeaux from Martinique with sugar and coffee.

In all, HMS Breconshire made more trips to Malta than any other merchantman.