WordNet
n. conveyance provided by the ships belonging to one country or industry [syn: shipping, cargo ships, merchant marine]
Usage examples of "merchant vessels".
It was based on his experiences on a navy ship escorting merchant vessels in the Arctic Ocean and became a bestseller.
My partner and I recently purchased an old cargo ship to expand our fleet of merchant vessels.
However, the reports from the merchant vessels Blaze had plundered, and the testimony of my own cruiser officers who had encountered him, convinced me otherwise.
These three ships were surely destined to become part of a private fleet of fast, heavily armed ships that could escort merchant vessels safely through pirate-infested waters or blockade a harbor.
And she could see the long line of ships, waiting patiently for their turns to transit to Manticore, just as she could see the merchant vessels which had preceded Hexapuma moving steadily away from the terminus.
And though this also holds true of merchant vessels, yet not by any means to the same extent as with whalemen.
The sailors on the merchant vessels had been cleaner, she thought.
Maffitt had an uncanny knack at finding and capturing Union merchant vessels.
No merchant-and these were all merchant vessels-wanted to escape ruin in a besieged harbor only to find it by running his ship aground.
Accompanied by four small ships, he circled the British Isles, captured merchant vessels and men-of-war within sight of their harbors, sailed into numerous bays, and even approached the Thames.