A Proclamation--Declaring what ensign or colours shall be worn at sea in merchant ships or vessels belonging to any of Her Majesty's subjects of Great Britain and the Dominions thereunto belonging.
A proclamation for the regulating the colours to be worn on merchant ships.
Tromp had from eighty to ninety men-of-war with him, and behind them a great flock of merchant ships.
It consisted almost wholly of merchant ships, but there was one heavy galleon of war which served as the flagship of the Spanish admiral, Francisco de Lujan.
While Hall applied himself to the convoying of merchant ships, Penn was free to pursue Rupert.
The sinking of the Tara, coupled with numerous attacks on merchant ships, proved that the undersea fleet of Germany in the Mediterranean was becoming formidable.
The lives of 1,550 persons were lost during the first year of the war through the sinking of merchant ships, nearly all of which were torpedoed.
Certain concessions were granted to the demands of the United States, but it was proposed to consider many vessels as warcraft that other nations regarded as merchant ships.
The majority of the prisoners were of course sailors and soldiers, civilians being chiefly passengers taken in merchant ships.
It charged misuse of neutral flags and the arming of merchant ships by Great Britain.
Coastwise, a convoy of merchant ships zigzag in confusing angles on their way to sea, guarded by spurring destroyers and trawler escort.
Generally, he was not intimate with the working of merchant ships.
The second convoy will sail the 14th of July, with the frigate Hoeken, under the command of the Major and Chevalier Samuel Orrskiold, who is to convoy with the same care the merchant ships as far as Cape Finisterre.
First, the succor demanded by Great Britain; secondly, the convoys to be granted to merchant ships; thirdly, the invitation of the Empress of Russia to accede to an armed neutrality.
He then told me that the American Government had come to the end of its resources, and if any further cases occurred of loss of American lives by the torpedoing of merchant ships, war must inevitably result.
Jellicoe: More ships, merchant ships, any kind of ships, and take over the patrol of the American side of the Atlantic and release the British cruisers there.
It is now very common in merchant ships to set a sail called a cross-jack upon this yard.
A well-known sea-dish of barley and treacle, in merchant ships.
The second class of rating on Lloyd's books for the comparative excellence of merchant ships.
Perhaps the English insisted on their not causing trouble by laying mines in the straits of Malacca, where there are considerable movements of merchant ships.
How important it is may be seen from the fact that even merchant ships voyaging in southern and eastern waters go into dock to be cleaned at least once in six months.
Merchant ships do not come near our fleet out of curiosity--they give way to us.
Sidenote: Merchant ships not to be sunk without warning.
The number of Royal ships was only thirteen, the rest of the navy consisting of merchant ships, which were hired and discharged when their purpose was served.
The same features were reproduced in merchant ships.
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