And she had taken a letter from King Afridun to the following effect: “These be merchantmen from the land of Sham who have been with us: so it besitteth none to do them harm or hindrance, nor take tax and tithe of them, till they reach their homes and safe places, for by merchants a country flourisheth, and these are no men of war nor of ill faith.” ❋ Unknown (2006)
Ships are principally distinguished as those called merchantmen, which belong to individuals or companies, and are engaged in commerce; and men-of-war, or the national ships, built for the purposes of war. ❋ Various (N/A)
He didn't know that the nearest row of "merchantmen" carried missiles. ❋ Clancy, Tom, 1947- (1986)
It was, it struck me, from a petronel, or some small piece of ordnance such as merchantmen carried in those days. ❋ William Henry Giles Kingston (1847)
Surrounding the merchantmen were the warships of the British Expeditionary Force: ships of the line, 74-guns, 44’s, 22’s, brigs, frigates, a small part of the mightiest navy the world had ever known. ❋ Clavell, James (1966)
Budiansky, who writes with sure and vivid command, describes three British warships "carrying on their usual routine of lobbing cannonballs across the bows of merchantmen passing into New York" on the evening of April 25, 1806. ❋ Post (2011)
If Soviet cruisers and submarines had started attacking American -, British -, Dutch -, etc. -flagged liners merchantmen in the North Atlantic, I feel like the treaty would have been triggered. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The Atlantic Fleet was instructed, according to a secret Navy study years later, to “detect, report, track Soviet or Satellite forces including merchantmen” using “defensive armament only.” ❋ David A. Nichols (2011)
The tiny, hastily formed Continental Navy consisting mainly of improvised small craft and converted merchantmen had to content itself with pinprick raids on enemy commercial shipping or coastal targets and occasional small-scale actions against lesser British military craft, never ships of the line in battle array. ❋ Unknown (2010)
If Soviet cruisers and submarines had started attacking American-, British-, Dutch-, etc.-flagged liners merchantmen in the North Atlantic, I feel like the treaty would have been triggered. ❋ Unknown (2010)
By December it had converted three other merchantmen, but now it grew more ambitious, voting to build thirteen new naval vessels at ports from New Hampshire to South Carolina. ❋ Charles Rappleye (2010)
The Cruisers and Convoys Act of 1708 established a prize court to condemn captured ships and, if they were merchantmen, sell them and their cargoes. ❋ Unknown (2010)
No small reason was that the navy gave its officers and men an enormous incentive to capture enemy warships and merchantmen: the whole value of the ships and cargoes they captured. ❋ Unknown (2010)
News flash: Cocky Muslim pirates prey on merchantmen from small boats and ships. ❋ Unknown (2010)
