Thus, you see, comparing the tonnage of a warship with that of a merchant ship is somewhat like comparing a pound with a bushel.
Net registered tonnage is generally considerably less than the displacement tonnage of the same ship, so that a warship is usually less than a merchant ship of the same nominal number of tons.
It is difficult to compare the tonnage of a warship with that of a merchant ship, since they are not measured in the same way.
The crew was dressed in the ordinary sloppy clothes of a merchantman's deck-hands; the officers wore the usual merchant ship uniform, and everything was as unmilitary as a merchant ship usually is.
The first of these was the occasion on which the submarine detected a merchant ship; in this case it submerged, for the success of its attempt to torpedo depended entirely upon its operating unseen.
It gave our men splendid training, it saved many a merchant ship, it rescued many victims from the extreme dangers of German ruthlessness, it sank a small number of submarines, but it could never have won the war.
Certain strong bulk-heads or barriers of wood, formerly stretching across a merchant ship in several places; they were used for retreat and shelter when a ship was boarded by an adversary, and were therefore fitted with loop-holes.
An official inventory of the cargo of a merchant ship, specifying the name and tonnage of the vessel, the description of goods, the names of shippers and consignees, and the marks of each package.
A merchant ship commanded by a retired officer of the Royal Navy or by an officer of the Royal Naval Reserve may fly the blue ensign under Admiralty Warrant if the crew includes ten officers or men belonging to the Reserve.
As soon as he was recovered, he managed to get aboard a merchant ship; to go to sea was the first step toward returning to the continental navy, which was the desire of his heart.
The ketch sailed leisurely in, having the appearance of a merchant ship from a Mediterranean port, after a considerable voyage.
It is here that the Frederick (merchant ship) was wrecked in 1818.
A merchant ship, the Countess of Harcourt, was taken up to convey the stores and provisions, and the Lady Nelson, colonial brig, was also placed at the disposal of the commandant.
I enlisted as a signalman, and was assigned to duty on a merchant ship.
We were escorting a merchant ship flotilla--a whole flock of us.
A customhouse officer who goes on board of a merchant ship to secure payment of the duties; a tidewaiter.
An officer or person in a merchant ship, whose duty is to manage the sales, and superintend the commercial concerns, of the voyage.
This summer, my son John was made captain of a merchant ship, and served under Sir Sackvill Trevor's command at the taking of the French prize called the St. Esprit.
They are mere murders, just as the drowning of the innocent passengers and crews on a merchant ship is murder and not an act of war.
No merchant ship would be allowed to arm in this port and leave the harbor.
As for their quality, "One man out of a merchant ship is better than three the lieutenants get in town.
John Gray, carpenter of a merchant ship, in a moment of anger threatened to cut the skipper down with an axe.
The sailor taken out of a merchant ship, or the fisherman out of a smack, might at the eleventh hour spring upon you a protection good for his discharge.
In other words some of the very Powers which have ratified the Convention as it stands categorically declined to add to it a provision forbidding altogether the conversion of a merchant ship into a warship on the high seas.
A belligerent who converts a merchant ship into a warship must, as soon as possible, announce such conversion in the list of its warships.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "merchant ship" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
