1, The position with regard to merchant seamen on Tyneside is rather complex.

2, Two merchant seamen in the engine room were killed immediately and a third died later on a lifeboat.

3, This abandonment of a Tyneside base by ship owning interests would not necessarily reduce recruitment of merchant seamen from the Tyne.

4, Its chief exports had been sponges and merchant seamen, and those brought in nothing in wartime.

5, The battle cost 120,000 lives, including 30,000 merchant seamen and 6,000 men of the Royal Navy.

6, The 37-year-old merchant seaman killed Joyce after a night out ended in drunken violence.

7, Meale, who began working life as a merchant seaman and was later an Aycliffe councillor,(http:///merchant seaman.html) is unamused.

8, Was he a merchant seaman too?

9, When he earned his law degree in 1933, he had already worked as a merchant seaman.

10, Harry has kicked around all over the world as a merchant seaman.

11, Fierce fighting ensued and the boarding party managed to rescue the British merchant seaman held on the ship.