Use "merchant ship" em uma frase

1. Captain Jones had worked his way up from the wharf to deckhand and then onto the merchant shipping line to eventually become a commissioned captain

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2. king, the demand for sailors to merchant ships necessarily rises with their scarcity ; and their

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3. No, her only chance was to find a merchant ship about to leave the port

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4. And where would this merchant ship be sailing

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5. merchant ship with square sails bobbing in the

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6. Confederacy had only one fighting ship, the Sumter, which was the first of the cruiser class ships of war to be converted from a merchant ship

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7. The most important transit-duty in the world, is that levied by the king of Denmark upon all merchant ships which pass through the Sound

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8. she captured over two-dozen Union merchant ships, of which all

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9. He continued to steer south and thought it would be more fitting to intercept merchant shipping on the routes from San Francisco to

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10. One merchant ship, the Milan, reported seeing a steamer that appeared to be the Shenandoah after departing Puget Sound on July 23, but this was later confirmed to be the British ship-of-war, Chameleon, which was cruising off the west coast at that time, according to the British Consul

11. Closer inspection revealed that the other ship was English and a merchant ship, not a man-of-war

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12. was subsequently converted into a merchant ship

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13. They were built to accompany the merchant ships guarding against pirate raids, as piracy was commonplace in the great sea and to the south

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14. There were a number of ships in the port, but very few were merchant ships

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15. The uniformed crew betrayed that it was a naval rather than merchant ship, but I could see no cannon

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16. Late in the summer, a merchant ship put into port and among the passengers were Chowa’s wife and children

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17. I urged him not to send any merchant ships to the Khakhanate unbidden

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18. Wako—14th and 15th century Japanese pirates that plundered merchant shipping in the East China Sea, Yellow Sea, and Sea of Japan

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19. Miami where they would put it on a merchant ship and work on the

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20. Yeah, welcome to a merchant ship where it

21. moving towards the merchant ship

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22. foreigner on this merchant ship, though, he got it

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23. Unarmed Military Sealift Command merchant ships were guarded by NATO naval vessels en route to the theater of operations

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24. The Coast Guard appoints admeasures for merchant ships which constitutes the official data from which fees and the cost of licenses are calculated

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25. Even including the merchant ships

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26. Gordy said it was a bit odd for merchant ships to be this close to the coast but they did sometimes put in for fresh water as the huge river Danverse emptied into the sea at Niagara’s mouth near Gates Cove

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27. Large merchant ships lay burning at their moorings while the city’s formidable Navy was at the bottom of the harbor

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28. Gaspar was captained by a tough little sergeant who had spent ten years working merchant ships plying the Volga, the Black Sea and the Mediterranean

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29. Free-lance explorers, merchant ships of all types, Space Force and Swordsman warships all stopped there and traded

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30. During the night November 8/9th they intercepted an Italian convoy of seven merchant ships and, without loss to themselves, destroyed them all

31. Though Britain had assisted the modernization of Japan’s navy, at the outbreak of the war a British merchant ship was in the employ of China, transporting troops, and it was the forcible interception of that ship by the Japanese that almost set off hostilities between Britain and Japan

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32. Its officers and crews were too often arrogant towards the merchant ship crews they stopped for inspection and were seen to be more interested in levying as much customs fees and taxes as they could instead of doing an honest job of regulating and protecting space traffic

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33. A number of merchant ships that had been on Mars or in orbit were able to leave before the Terrans could establish a solid blockade force around Mars

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34. ‘’But that KOSTROMA is only an armed merchant ship, and it is alone, dammit!’’

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35. As for being alone, do you really believe that the Spacers are not rushing right now to convert more merchant ships, which they own in abundance, into warships? Should I remind you that most of our resources in metals, chemicals and cryogenic fuel came from Spacer worlds, resources that have now dried up? Even if we wanted to build up a real battle fleet, I doubt that what we have presently in reserve on Earth would be enough to supply our shipyards

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36. While some would call that cowardice, Wa called it sensible prudence, especially when considering that the KOSTROMA was a converted merchant ship, and not a true warship

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37. instead of forming a standing navy and army, we will use the merchant ships armed for this war as a reserve force, while our standard police and security forces will all receive basic combat training and will have combat weapons held in store

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38. The merchant ships armed for war by the Spacers League or, in the case of your ship, those that had armed themselves out of their own initiative, will be allowed to keep their armaments and combat systems and will receive government subsidies to maintain these systems and weapons

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39. If, however, a crisis erupts, then the Spacers League will reserve the right to recall these armed merchant ships into military service, with their expenses and payrolls then taken care by the government, and that for the duration of the crisis

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40. The Bismarck travelling through the seas presented a huge problem for the British Navy, and for all the merchant ships, huge problem

41. He refused to put merchant ships into convoys which was a tactic that had worked before in WW1

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42. For this Act of Parliament, the Merchant Shipping Act of the Victorian era, had been in a manner of speaking a father and mother to me

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43. For the strictest laws aiming at the preservation of national seamen had to recognise the difficulties of manning merchant ships all over the world

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44. Thus it may be said that up to the date I have mentioned the crews of British merchant ships engaged in deep water voyages to Australia, to the East Indies and round the Horn were essentially British

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45. He raised his eyes from the anchored merchant ships to the Yu-kwau docks and skyline

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46. The Harchong Narrows might be closed to merchant shipping, but the bay wasn’t, and the city’s docks were crowded with coasters, many of them carrying loads of coal from Queiroz, others loaded to the deckhead with corn, grain, beans, apples, oranges, and sugar apples from the farms of Queiroz and Kyznetzov

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47. They stood side-by-side, leaning on the railing, gazing out across the blue harbor at the warships lying to anchor and the bevy of merchant ships and coasters gliding in and out under their more martial sisters’ watchful eye

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48. They were quite prepared to engage on anything remotely like equal terms, and that aggressiveness had severely hampered Earl Sharpfield’s operations against the Gulf of Dohlar’s merchant shipping

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49. The rest were still available to continue their depredations against enemy commerce, and the officers and crews of the merchant ships involved would have a pronounced distaste for encountering those schooners until and unless their own navy was in a position to provide escorts once more

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50. The merchant ship wasn’t the handiest vessel Ahlkofahrdoh had ever seen, but Mychysyn, as always, was maintaining meticulous station astern of the escort flagship

51. In a merchant ship, it provided a raised platform from which to con the ship but, even more importantly, it protected the quarterdeck-mounted wheel from the effects of rain, wind, and—especially—waves in heavy weather

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52. There, in short, upon the Isle of New Providence could the Pyrates prepare Excursions ’gainst the great Merchant Ships, for in New Providence there was no Law at all and Pyrates liv’d just as they lik’d

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53. Surface raiders had captured merchant ships and taken their crews prisoner, but a submarine had to leave the crews to their fate

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54. Neutral countries complained angrily, especially the USA, which sent thousands of merchant ships each year to British ports

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55. There are some merchant service officers staying here, very nice young men, and they tell me I can get a cabin on a merchant ship back to England probably from Townsville, that's on the east coast of Australia in Queensland, and if there isn't a ship there I'd certainly get one at Brisbane

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56. He masterminded the use of submarines in “wolf packs”—coordinated groups hunting down merchant ships

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57. Korzeniowski, a native of Poland and a member of the crew of the merchant ship Saint Antoine, sailing under the French flag, who had spent several months here trying to conclude a complicated arms deal

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58. Now a certain grand merchant ship once touched at Rokovoko, and its commander—from all accounts, a very stately punctilious gentleman, at least for a sea captain—this commander was invited to the wedding feast of Queequeg's sister, a pretty young princess just turned of ten

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59. Merchant ships are but extension bridges; armed ones but floating forts; even pirates and privateers, though following the sea as highwaymen the road, they but plunder other ships, other fragments of the land like themselves, without seeking to draw their living from the bottomless deep itself

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60. They contain round archipelagoes of romantic isles, even as the Polynesian waters do; in large part, are shored by two great contrasting nations, as the Atlantic is; they furnish long maritime approaches to our numerous territorial colonies from the East, dotted all round their banks; here and there are frowned upon by batteries, and by the goat-like craggy guns of lofty Mackinaw; they have heard the fleet thunderings of naval victories; at intervals, they yield their beaches to wild barbarians, whose red painted faces flash from out their peltry wigwams; for leagues and leagues are flanked by ancient and unentered forests, where the gaunt pines stand like serried lines of kings in Gothic genealogies; those same woods harboring wild Afric beasts of prey, and silken creatures whose exported furs give robes to Tartar Emperors; they mirror the paved capitals of Buffalo and Cleveland, as well as Winnebago villages; they float alike the full-rigged merchant ship, the armed cruiser of the State, the steamer, and the beech canoe; they are swept by Borean and dismasting blasts as direful as any that lash the salted wave; they know what shipwrecks are, for out of sight of land, however inland, they have drowned full many a midnight ship with all its shrieking crew

61. One day this station signalled that a merchant ship had been torpedoed and that German submarines were near the coast

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62. The insult offered to the honor of the nation in the affair of the Chesapeake, so far from being redressed, was heightened by a proclamation from the King of Great Britain, authorizing publicly, in the face of the world, the boarding of our merchant ships, and taking therefrom whomsoever their officers should call a British subject; to palliate this outrage on our independence, it was recommended to the boarding officer to execute this indignity with politeness

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63. What, then, was our situation when Congress met? The French privateers were capturing our defenceless merchant ships, burning those of little value, and carrying into their ports for condemnation those which were valuable

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64. But, sir, I wished to do something; I proposed, in select committee, to strike out those sections which would only do us injury, and then fill their place with sections (which I had draughted and presented for consideration) authorizing the arming of the merchant ships, not for defence alone, but with authority to capture and make prize of any vessel that might assail them while engaged in lawful commerce, and to employ the public ships of war in convoying the trade of the nation

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65. The conferees met, and the committee of Senate submitted a section, "authorizing the President, under his instructions, made conformably to the laws of nations, to grant convoy to the merchant ships of the United States engaged in lawful commerce

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66. What cause of complaint has Denmark, or ever had Denmark, against us? Her most fond and speculative maritime pretensions we have willingly espoused, and yet she continues daily to capture and condemn our vessels and cargoes, and contemptuously tells us that the Government of the United States is too wise to go to war for a few merchant ships

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67. Resolved, That a committee be appointed to inquire into the expediency of offering encouragements at this time to all mariners and seamen to bring within any of the ports of the United States British public and private armed ships, as well as merchant ships or vessels, belonging to the subjects of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland; and that the committee have leave to report by bill or otherwise

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68. And there is, in my mind, another difficulty: In the manning these heavy ships, you will have to impress men to go on board of them, or raise the wages up to what is given in a merchant ship; because the sailors will not be willing to go on board large ships, when they have no chance for prize money

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69. But what is the principle in contest between the two Governments? Great Britain claims the right to visit neutral merchant ships on the high seas; and if she finds any of her natural born subjects, to take them into her service

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70. To give effect to the right thus claimed and admitted, she insists that her officers may go on board our merchant ships on the high seas, or in her ports—search for and take her subjects

71. That they should have the right to hold lands—be admitted under the regulations of the navigation act as British seamen on board merchant ships, and participate in the pension and hospital provisions

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72. Should this principle be established, which in all cases would afford a secure asylum in our merchant ships, it is dreaded by British statesmen and the British people, that their seamen, allured by higher wages and easier employment, would abandon their service, and thus render their country accessible to their enemy

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