mercantile marine
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Under its house flag in normal times sails a chartered merchant fleet as large as the whole mercantile marine of France.
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In gross tonnage of mercantile marine, Norway stood No. 2 in all Europe, Denmark No. 9.
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Until the advent of the Bremen and Europa seven years later she was Germany's largest ship, crack vessel of its mercantile marine; then the Columbus fell into third place.
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Ernest, who had always loved sea ways, and had come to know them through years in the mercantile marine service, had just returned from Antarctica with Scott Antarctic Expedition of 1901.
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A moment after, and all that remained unconsumable by fire of that once noble specimen of our mercantile marine vanished like a shot beneath the waves.
From The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 2 by Whymper, Frederick
