Now Archy, who was up to the hiding-places on board a merchant vessel, goes down with his cutlass, and crawls about in the dark, until at last he gets hold of a man by the heels.
Any person in the naval service of the United States who pillages or maltreats, in any manner, any person found on board a merchant vessel captured as a prize, shall be severely punished.
The occupation of a privateer is attack and plunder, that of a merchant vessel is commerce and self-preservation.
He came from the South along the coast in a merchant vessel, and as they lay in Hillarsund they saw a great many ravens flying about.
Thorarin was just then done with rigging out a merchant vessel which he owned, and with which he intended to go to Iceland in summer.
The king gave him a merchant vessel: and, as far as we know of this voyage of his, he landed first in Iceland at Austfjord in the southern Alptfjord, and passed the winter in the house of Hal of Sida.
He then sailed eastward to the island of Gotland, where he captured a merchant vessel belonging to the people of Jamtaland.
The prow then cast off, and a bright flame burst forth from the merchant vessel.
From the appearance of the chase, there was no doubt that she was a merchant vessel, and it was hoped would offer no great resistance.
That she was a Spaniard seemed probable, and there were great hopes that she might prove a merchant vessel.
A better seaman never trod the deck of a merchant vessel, or a king's ship either.
The squareness of her yards and the cut of her canvas made it evident that she was not a merchant vessel; but whether an English or French man-of-war, or a privateer, it was difficult at that distance to determine.
Philip I found was down in the cabin, and with him I had a long conversation, he stated his wish to remain at sea, saying that he preferred a privateer to a merchant vessel, and a king's ship to a privateer.
He told me that he belonged to a merchant vessel, and in a drunken brawl a Portuguese had been killed; he and two others had been condemned to the mines, but the others were dead long ago.
I set off with my wardrobe and the purse of twenty guineas, which my father had given me, and, having a desire to see the world, I went on board of a merchant vessel.
Formerly, the largest boat carried by a merchant vessel, corresponding to the launch of a naval vessel.
He was to have taken passage on board a merchant vessel, 'The Saint Louis,' which is expected in Marseilles every day, if she has not already come in.
Then, again, why should he come home in a merchant vessel, and not on board his frigate?
Champcey will arrive, or perhaps has already arrived, in Marseilles, on board a merchant vessel, 'The Saint Louis.
I was directed to sail on a merchant vessel, to travel under an assumed name, to wear civilian clothes and to take no uniform.
The epithet for the captain or commander of a merchant vessel.
On his return home, he was offered the command of a merchant vessel in the Dutch trade which he accepted, being then but nineteen years of age.
But this book, although the setting for most of the book is inside the cargo hold of a merchant vessel, doesn't really fit into any of Reid's usual genres.
All this would have been different on board a man-of-war, where the order of an officer is instantly obeyed without question or remark; but on a merchant vessel it is far otherwise.
I have only been the master of a merchant vessel,--in other words, a "skipper.
When life has been taken it has been mostly in cases where a fight has followed a refusal on the part of a merchant vessel to surrender.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "merchant vessel" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
