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. This class of ships were the largest merchant vessels around , measuring between 1100 and 1400 tons.

5. The vast armada comprised 4,000 merchant vessels and 700 warships.

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

7. Privately owned vessel commissioned by a state at war to attack enemy ships, usually merchant vessels.

8. The vessel of choice for these pirates in the early days was the galley, whose oars allowed them to overtake merchant vessels caught in light wind.

9. In fact, in a span of less than a decade, Barbary Coast corsairs plundered nearly 500 merchant vessels, commandeering the ships and selling the crews and passengers into slavery.

10. Privateer: Privately owned vessel a state at war to attack enemy ships, usually merchant vessels.

11. Xebecs are also quite well - suited for being merchant vessels.

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12. The Frigate 's high speed made them the preferred ships for escorting faster merchant vessels.

13. Possibility of emergency tow packages to be required on all large merchant vessels (as required on tankers by IMO) - to aid in the connection of a tow line in emergencies.

14. The findings an analysis of temperatures recorded by ships, mostly merchant vessels, the report said.

15. Privateer: Privately owned vessel commissioned by a state at war to attack enemy ships, usually merchant vessels.