1. Typically, the arming of a merchant vessel involved mounting eight six-inch guns on the ship.

2. Navy and merchant vessels, also using lamps, still use Morse signals in convoy while running under radio silence.

3. Boarding and rummage of a merchant vessel presents no particular problem to us.

4. The British merchant vessel, SS Kiawo, was camouflaged and armored at Ichang.

5. Somali pirates seized control of the German-owned merchant vessel Beluga Fortune in the Indian Ocean on Sunday, Reuters reports.

6. Waves batter a merchant vessel stranded along the coast during a heavy storm in Valparaiso City, Chile, 121 km (75 miles) northwest of Santiago on July 6, 2010.

7. When required for use in war, large numbers of merchant vessels were impressed adhoc.

8. After some digging, Marriott came across records which showed the Nord Deutsche Line, a German merchant vessel group, had a ship called the Reiher docked at the time of the murders.

9. Five Somali pirates convicted of attacking a US Navy ship they mistook for a merchant vessel last November have been sentenced to life in prison, the BBC reported.

10. The ship, 30.4m long and 9.8m wide, was built during the Song Dynasty. It is the oldest and the largest wrecked merchant vessel yet discovered, and the best preserved.

11. Five Somali men convicted of attacking a US Navy ship they mistook for a merchant vessel have been sentenced to life in prison.

12. The Genoese commander wanted to throw his cannon into the sea, to hide the soldiers between decks, and to slip along in the dark as a merchant vessel.

13. At Chatham Dockyard in Southeastern England, ships were built and repaired and tradesmen crafted everything a naval or merchant vessel needed.

14. The first storm, in the middle of the 1st century B. C. , sank a Roman merchant vessel laden with Greek treasures.

15. Somali man has admitted attacking a US warship in April after mistaking it for a merchant vessel.

16. The British merchant officers were locked up on the ship and, several hours later when the British merchant vessel SS Wantung moored at Wanhsien, she was taken also.