On going in, they met with an American merchantman coming out, and, on a boat from the Leviathan boarding her, the master informed the officer in command that the French fleet had sailed some days before.
The brig under reduced sail, seen through the fog, looked probably more like a merchantman than a man-of-war.
The Dutch had also challenged the English merchantman in his own carrying trade, as well as becoming general carriers for all Europe; so much so that they were termed "The wagoners of all the seas.
She anchored off Quallah Battoo in February 1832, disguised as a Danish ship, and came to in merchantman style, a few men being sent aloft, dressed in red and blue flannel shirts, and one sail being clewed up and furled at a time.
The pirates knew not whether she was a merchantman or man-of-war.
She proved, however, to be an unarmed merchantman sailing under Spanish colors.
He captured a merchantman named the Quedagh, and, refusing the offered ransom of thirty thousand rupees, sold her and her cargo at a pirates' rendezvous for forty thousand dollars.
There were canvas blinds to his bow-gun ports to screen the weight he bore, And the signals ran for a merchantman from Sandy Hook to the Nore.
So I thought I would speak to you and explain that it would be necessary for us to overhaul a merchantman and replenish our food supply.
But they were not a foot apart when, with a great rush and scramble, Ben Greenway left the merchantman and tumbled himself on board the Revenge.
I have heard of his sailing a long way back to Belize to pay a gambling debt he owed, he having captured a merchantman in the meantime.
Sometimes when a merchantman anchors here and I have hides or anything else which we can barter for things we need, I row over the bay in a canoe which I have made, and have thus very much bettered our condition.
Ignorance made him fearless, and he alighted in safety on the deck of the merchantman at the very instant when the two vessels, having touched, separated themselves from each other for the space of a yard or two.
Why should a man from a merchantman endeavour, alone, to board a vessel which flew the Jolly Roger?
He was a man whose mind could thoroughly engage itself with but one thing at a time, and the fact that his men were at work sacking the merchantman did not in the least divert his thoughts from his pen and paper.
As soon as we can overhaul a merchantman we shall commit a piracy.
Consequently you will either have to remain kicking your heels at the latter place, or you will have to tranship and go aboard the first merchantman bound for Hong-Kong.
The boat of a merchantman lying not far from us, was just then passing with her master in her.
Their mode of proceeding was to run alongside any merchantman they fell in with, which they thought would prove a prize worth having.
John Bull, be it remembered, drove the American merchantman from the Atlantic; and likewise Japan may capture the carrying business of the Pacific.
When we were there I heard some curious stories about that polacca-brig; and all I can say is, that if I had been aboard a merchantman and sighted her, I shouldn't have been comfortable till we got clear of her again.
The low deck of a yacht, it must be remembered, does not present the difficulties to assailants which even a brig-of-war or an ordinary high-sided merchantman is capable of doing.
They're low down on the sea-line, but by their look I think that one is the Seamew and the other a merchantman she has captured.
But she had been, I believe, a merchantman captured by the pirate, and was such a beauty that he hoisted his flag on her, and handed his own schooner over to his mate.
It's all very well to learn your business there as a boy, and I grant that in some things a merchantman is a better school than a king's ship.
The whizzing shell spoke plainly to the Spanish craft, and had hardly more than flung up a column of water a hundred yards or less in front of the merchantman before she was hastily rounded to with her engines reversed.
Armed merchantman Isla de Pany, equipped with two guns, and carrying stores and a few troops.
At first it seemed that battle-ship and merchantman could find no way to locate the approach of an enemy submarine.
Hearing a submarine approaching beneath the surface, the merchantman may avoid her and the destroyers and patrol-boats may take means to effect her capture.
After a list had been made of the prisoners they were marched off the Gaspee onto a barge, which was towed out to a merchantman lying in the bay.
The seaman was the captain of a sailing merchantman bound for England, who had been engaged to transport the Americans to that country.
Three days afterward the first-class merchantman Deliverance, Kirke, commander, sailed from London for the China Sea.
ON the seventh of June, the owners of the merchantman Deliverance received news that the ship had touched at Plymouth to land passengers, and had then continued her homeward voyage to the Port of London.
If the three-masted merchantman which lay becalmed was not visible at break of day it was because she had been scuttled by the tug, boarded by the cut-throat band on the Ebba, and sunk with all on board after being pillaged.
If he were able to employ this new engine of destruction no merchantman could resist him, no warship escape total destruction.
The rest the enemy tried to burn by means of an old merchantman which they filled with faggots and pine-wood, set on fire, and let drift down the wind which blew full on the Athenians.
For the voyage round Sicily in a merchantman is not far short of eight days; and yet, large as the island is, there are only two miles of sea to prevent its being mainland.
The navigation of this coast by the shortest route takes a merchantman four days and four nights with a wind astern the whole way: by land an active man, travelling by the shortest road, can get from Abdera to the Danube in eleven days.
There he met with a merchantman on the point of starting for Ionia.
But there happened to be a merchantman lying at anchor in the roadstead, which the Athenian ship found time to sail round, and struck the Leucadian in chase amidships and sank her.
The captain and certain of the crew of the merchantman were present and told their grievance, and with a large sweep of assumption swore that we were each as bad as the other.
The captain of the merchantman had already reported his wrongs to the authorities; and now, finding himself cheek by jowl with the offender, lost not a moment in taking his revenge.
The authorities are always civil to one who sails under the Government blue ensign, and never trouble him with the tedious formalities the common merchantman is subjected to.
That's where a small merchantman like mine," said he, "beats any big one.
A big merchantman must berth at Ostia or at the Northern Harbor.
But he led us to a fine stone quay by which was moored as trig a merchantman as I ever saw, new and fresh painted.
Manton therefore ran down as close to the side of the merchantman (for such she seemed to be) as enabled him to hail her through the speaking-trumpet.
With perfect confidence in his guide, the unfortunate captain of the merchantman followed until both vessels were in the comparatively still and sheltered waters of the bay.
The little corvette sailed steadily down the middle of the lane; the great merchantman went pitching and rolling across her bows; thus they kept together, though their rates of sailing were so different.
A man can do his duty in a coaster as well as a merchantman or a frigate.
Hence the Senate had technically gone on record against declaring war on Germany if any of her submarines sank an armed merchantman without warning, thereby causing the death of any American on board.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "merchantman" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
