merchant sailor
seaman

I hadn't known it at the time but merchant sailors don't like us.

Benjamin's father is a merchant sailor on the Dordogne River.

A merchant marine sailor, played by Raft, comes home from the war and searches for his father's murderer.

Jansen was a merchant sailor, and colporteur in China's interior.

He was a merchant sailor, a university teacher and worked in public relations for the World Health Organization.

The version popular in Mexico and sung by merchant sailors is:

They both lost ships and merchant sailors in trading through the war zones.

In his late teens he became a merchant sailor.

Did you know that only combat Marines died with more frequency than America's merchant sailors?

The merchant sailor might not have understood the words, but he seemed to understand Murdock's tone and gestures.