Word: merchantmen
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...Maritime Commission needs 40,000 more seamen and 10,000 more licensed officers to man the 1,200 new merchantmen which will slide down the ways in 1942-43. It will have to look alive to find them. With jobs in war industries beckoning him ashore, many a sailor has signed off, even though fat bonuses are offered for trips through belligerent waters...
Stalking men of war they kept submerged, sharklike, getting off their wicked torpedoes by sound or at periscope depth. To strike at waddling merchantmen and tankers they often disdainfully surfaced, and opened fire with deck guns almost before the green water had run off their rounded backs...
...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...
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...