merchant marine

He decided that he would give up and return to the Merchant Marine.

The 39 members of the merchant marine crew on board were taken captive in an act that Ford called “piracy.”

Her navy had already swept the daring little fleet of American frigates and American merchant marine from the seas.

I am a sailor, not a constable—an officer of the Merchant Marine.

And we haven't built up a merchant marine because we've had no foreign consciousness.

It's the price we've got to pay for not having built up a merchant marine.

Thus, in the maintenance of a nation's merchant marine on the high seas, its navy exercises one of its most vital functions.