Noun:

కామర్స్ వెసెల్,

merchant ship's Usage Examples:

battle ensued, with the heavily damaged Öland being captured alongside the convoyed merchant ships.

against the Royal Navy, Royal Canadian Navy, United States Navy, and Allied merchant shipping.

The core market for these charts includes over 40,000 defence and merchant ships globally.

This enabled ships to be built at yards more used to merchant ship design, and as with other mass-produced escort vessels (such as the s, or the s, could use merchant-style reciprocating vertical triple expansion (VTE) engines.

An armed merchantman is a merchant ship equipped with guns, usually for defensive purposes, either by design or after the fact.

When fellow merchant ship SS Mary Luckenbach was struck by an aerial torpedo, its cargo of TNT detonated.

In 1869, under the leadership of Sadie the Goat, the gang stole a sloop, and soon began raiding merchant ships and homes along the Hudson River, from the Harlem River as far as Poughkeepsie and Albany, New York.

He converted some of his merchant ships to privateers.

Harbor, California, United States, which was an array of salt marshes and tidal flats too shallow for modern merchant ships before it was first dredged.

The emperor did this after receiving a petition regarding the presence of armed Western merchant ships all along the coast.

In October 1813, the American privateer The True Blooded Yankee captured six merchant ships lying at Port Charlotte, casting them adrift and setting fire to three.

Linois had sailed to the Indian Ocean in 1803 before the declaration of war, under orders to install garrisons in the French and Dutch colonies in the region and to prey on lightly defended British merchant shipping.

Synonyms:

freighter, cargo vessel, merchantman, cargo ship, bottom,

Antonyms:

natural elevation, top, head, side, miss,