Word: merchantmen
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Besides "waging peace," the Navy would wage neutrality. Despite their martial preoccupations, Navy men are students of U. S. trade. They know that if other nations war, the Navy may be called on to protect the neutral rights of U. S. merchantmen. About merchant shipping they point...
...Gulf Stream or drifts aground, if it is a particularly large berg, on the Banks themselves, where it is pounded to pieces by the waves. Often a berg will skirt the Banks and drift southward into the Transatlantic shipping lanes where it becomes a menace to liners and merchantmen, and provides work for the Ice Patrol...
...same moment that war is proclaimed giant fleets of airplanes, airships and U-boats will be informed by wireless. Merchantmen will be destroyed immediately and a nation unprepared for war will be exterminated within 48 hours. On land and sea new and pernicious gases and explosives, unknown in Germany, will be employed and annihilate the weaker nations within a moment...
Battle. The British auxiliary Kiawo at once opened fire on the land batteries, and all three British warships steamed close to the captured British merchantmen, in an effort to rescue their officers and passengers. The Kiawo steamed under the lea of the Wanhsien and effected a rescue of all Occidentals on board after a hand to hand fight with the Chinese. General Yang's well directed artillery fire made it impossible to board the Wantung, but the British warships stood by at a distance and picked up the Wantung's crew and passengers who leaped overboard...
...only 14 privately owned passenger ships and 22 freighters now operating, aside from those engaged in the island trade?a condition no better than before the war. He asserted that American shippers must combine to remove the discriminating measures, in order to restore the flags of privately owned American Merchantmen to the high seas...