merchantmen
Meaning
of Merchantman
Source: Webster's dictionarySynonyms
Examples
Additionally many captured or confisticated foreign civilian ships (merchantmen, fishing boats, tugboats etc.) were converted into auxiliary warships or support ships.
Constitution escorted twelve merchantmen to Philadelphia on her return voyage, and on 24 August put in at Boston, where she received new masts, sails, and rigging.
His subjects offer a cross-section of seventeenth-century Dutch society, ranging from the portrayal of a simple milkmaid at work, to the luxury and splendour of rich notables and merchantmen in their roomy houses.
Britain lost 3,238 merchantmen, a smaller fraction of her merchant marine than the enemy losses of 3,434.
Despite a storm which scattered the convoy, the merchantmen reached the protection of land-based air cover, causing Dönitz to call off the attack.
Constitution captured three British merchantmen, which Hull ordered burned rather than risk taking them back to an American port.