merchantmen

And she had taken a letter from King Afridun to the following effect: “These be merchantmen from the land of Sham who have been with us: so it besitteth none to do them harm or hindrance, nor take tax and tithe of them, till they reach their homes and safe places, for by merchants a country flourisheth, and these are no men of war nor of ill faith.”

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

Ships are principally distinguished as those called merchantmen, which belong to individuals or companies, and are engaged in commerce; and men-of-war, or the national ships, built for the purposes of war.

The Illustrated London Reading Book Various

He didn't know that the nearest row of "merchantmen" carried missiles.

Red Storm Rising Clancy, Tom, 1947- 1986

It was, it struck me, from a petronel, or some small piece of ordnance such as merchantmen carried in those days.

Hurricane Hurry William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

Surrounding the merchantmen were the warships of the British Expeditionary Force: ships of the line, 74-guns, 44’s, 22’s, brigs, frigates, a small part of the mightiest navy the world had ever known.

Tai-Pan Clavell, James 1966

Budiansky, who writes with sure and vivid command, describes three British warships "carrying on their usual routine of lobbing cannonballs across the bows of merchantmen passing into New York" on the evening of April 25, 1806.

For sovereignty, of course. But for honor most of all. Post 2011

If Soviet cruisers and submarines had started attacking American -, British -, Dutch -, etc. -flagged liners merchantmen in the North Atlantic, I feel like the treaty would have been triggered.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Let Turkey Have Gaza 2010

If Soviet cruisers and submarines had started attacking American -, British -, Dutch -, etc. -flagged liners merchantmen in the North Atlantic, I feel like the treaty would have been triggered.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Let Turkey Have Gaza 2010

The Atlantic Fleet was instructed, according to a secret Navy study years later, to “detect, report, track Soviet or Satellite forces including merchantmen” using “defensive armament only.”

Eisenhower 1956 David A. Nichols 2011

Budiansky, who writes with sure and vivid command, describes three British warships "carrying on their usual routine of lobbing cannonballs across the bows of merchantmen passing into New York" on the evening of April 25, 1806.

For sovereignty, of course. But for honor most of all. Post 2011