Word: merchantmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Spain canceled the sailings of merchantmen for the Americas. Spain's entrance into the war would be the signal for attack on Gibraltar, perhaps on Portugal and the Azores as well...
...flags painted on the side of merchantmen in World War II haven't been much help to U.S. shipping lately-in fact, have served as convenient bull's-eyes for Nazi subs in unrestricted warfare...
...answer to all that: "The Liberty ships are slow, but hell, they'll float, and by God they'll get there." A modest man, Jerry Land never adds that you couldn't say as much for some of the strange and wonderful aggregation of emergency merchantmen of World War I. There were ships of green wood that seasoned in transit, and took water with seams agape in seas like a mill-pond...
Abuilding now in 39 of the nation's shipyards are 711 merchant ships. They are being built fast-two to three months ahead of schedule-and they are being built well. The pattern of construction has been standardized, and U.S. merchantmen now being built have a uniformity like that of U.S. cars...
...crescent bay where most of his fleet now rides at anchor. In the distance he can see the radio towers of the Cavite naval base and ahead, if the day is clear, the looming bulk of Corregidor, the Gibraltar that guards Manila. Close by he can see the merchantmen at Manila's big pier 7 busily unloading the precious stuff that he needs to keep his fleet in fighting trim...