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"When was the last time you saw a movie about the merchant marine?"
You ought to study hard and when you're older try for the merchant marine.
Or because of his father, who sailed in the merchant marine.
A college graduate and teacher, he went into the merchant marine with the hope that some day it would give him a way out.
As it happens, this, his next book, is about the sorry state of our merchant marine.
He also served as an engineer in the merchant marine.
Some had joined the merchant marine at age 16 precisely because they were too young for the military services.
He served as an engineering officer in the merchant marine from 1967 to 1970.
I got an e-mail message from a writer friend whose husband is in the merchant marine.
"You know why I took the hitch with the merchant marine?"
To provide a supply of water for naval and merchant shipping.
We're stretched too thin to protect our merchant shipping as it is.
The battle group maintained a continuous watch on all merchant shipping going to and from Iraq.
In the 19th and 20th centuries, various laws fundamentally changed the course of American merchant shipping.
The issue of second merchant shipping registers, for example, must be addressed immediately.
Only once was a German attack able to get past the escort to sink merchant shipping.
She remained there until her name disappeared from the merchant shipping registers in 1955.
The Luftwaffe's record against merchant shipping was also not impressive.
Ralli brothers later became the world's largest merchant shipping business.
A tonnage war is a military strategy aimed at merchant shipping.
At 17, however, he got the opportunity to see the world with the merchant navy.
He was the son of a master in the merchant navy.
At the age of 13 he joined the merchant navy.
He was employed by the merchant navy between 1880 and 1890.
He first went to sea in 1895 at the age of 18 by joining the merchant navy.
In 1943, he joined the merchant navy serving until 1947.
This was followed by a spell in the merchant navy.
This offer was turned down, and she continued to operate as part of the merchant navy.
He served overseas in the merchant navy from 1941 to 1942.
He joined the merchant navy and became an engineering officer.
