merchant navy

noun

1. the ships or crew engaged in a nation's commercial shipping

Example Sentences

Kollattu Ravikumar, a survivor of the hijacking who worked as a merchant navy captain for a US-based firm, confirmed the aliases in an article on Rediff news portal in 2000.

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Mr Filby was eligible for the War Medal 1939-45, which was created for everyone who served full-time in the armed forces and the Merchant Navy for at least 28 days during WW2.

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Despite the mutual attraction they went their separate ways after school and Bill joined the Merchant Navy.

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He grew up in Ayrshire in Scotland, where he was raised by his mother after his father, who worked in the Merchant Navy, died the month before he was born.

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Kenneth Robert Livingstone was born at the tail-end of World War Two in south London, to an acrobatic dancer and a ship's master in the Merchant Navy.

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