merchantman

• “One day the lookout called a merchantman bearing to the west.”

  Spice and the Devil's Cave

• “A merchantman is the craft he inclines to -- at least, to make a beginning with -- especially one that trades from port to port, visiting many lands; for, in truth, his leaning toward a sea life has much to do with a desire to see the world and its wonders.”

  The Land of Fire A Tale of Adventure

• “Blackwall and viewed the dock and the new Wet dock, which is newly made there, and a brave new merchantman which is to be launched shortly, and they say to be called the Royal Oak.”

  Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete

• “So after a cup of burnt wine -- [Burnt wine was somewhat similar to mulled wine, and a favourite drink] -- at the tavern there, we took barge and went to Blackwall and viewed the dock and the new Wet dock, which is newly made there, and a brave new merchantman which is to be launched shortly, and they say to be called the Royal Oak.”

  Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 09: January/February/March 1660-61

• “Aboard the merchantman was another like myself who speaks the tentacle-claw-finger language of the sea.”

  A Triumph of Souls

• “So after a cup of burnt wine ” [Burnt wine was somewhat similar to mulled wine, and a favourite drink] ” at the tavern there, we took barge and went to Blackwall and viewed the dock and the new Wet dock, which is newly made there, and a brave new merchantman which is to be launched shortly, and they say to be called the Royal Oak.”

  The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Jan/Feb/Mar 1660/61

• “Scotty wept over his poor old mother in Edinburgh -- a lady, he insisted, gently born -- who was in reduced circumstances, who had pinched herself to pay the lump sum to the ship-owners for his apprenticeship, whose sacrificing dream had been to see him a merchantman officer and a gentleman, and who was heartbroken because he had deserted his ship in Australia and joined another as a common sailor before the mast.”

  Chapter 6

• “In the second, Whisky Galore, the thirsty inhabitants of a remote Scottish village hijack the cargo of a whisky-laden merchantman wrecked on their shores during the second world war and defy the authorities to repossess it.”

  The Guardian: Whisky Galore – review

• “The present war was an outgrowth of a colonial dispute between Britain and Spain in the Caribbean, which started when a Spanish ship stopped a British merchantman skippered by Robert Jenkins, who lost an ear in a fight with the boarding party.”

  Simon & Schuster: George Washington’s First War

• “The Sparwehr was a Dutch merchantman daring the uncharted seas for Indies beyond the Indies.”

  Chapter 15

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