During the time of King Shapur II ( 310 – 379 ) of Persia, a group of 400 immigrants ( 72 families ) from Persia arrived in Malabar under the leadership of merchant Knai Thomman.

During one of her visits she met and later married Edward Lind, a Danish merchant who worked in the Hacienda La Henriqueta in the town of Arroyo.

* 851: The Arab merchant Suleiman al-Tajir visits the Chinese seaport at Guangzhou in southern China, and observes the manufacturing of porcelain, the Islamic mosque built at Guangzhou, the granary system of the city, and how its municipal administration functioned.

* The Arab merchant Suleiman al-Tajir visits Tang Dynasty China, observing the manufacturing of Chinese porcelain at Guangzhou and writes of his admiration for its transparent quality.

The Venetian and Genoese merchants paid visits to Trebizond during the medieval period and sold silk, linen and woolen fabric ; with the Republic of Genoa having an important merchant colony within the city that was similar to Galata near Constantinople ( north across the Golden Horn ) in present-day Istanbul.

The docks ' principal use is now water sports, but they do see occasional visits by naval and merchant vessels, especially during the annual London Boat Show and the biannual DSEi arms fair, both of which are held at the ExCeL Exhibition Centre.

During one of her visits she met and later married Edward Lind, a Danish merchant who worked in the Hacienda La Henriqueta in Arroyo.

* 1. 2-The Clunkman Cometh: " The Clunkman ", a junk merchant, visits the habiviron.

In 1691, during one of his visits to the German Quarter, young Peter I of Russia became enamoured of Anna Mons, the daughter of Dutch wine merchant Johann Mon.

The Continent was lost to fire on the Malabar coast and Bowen scuttled the Speedy Return after transferring to a merchant ship he had taken.

A merchant, Soleyman of Siraf of Persia, visited Malabar in the 9th century and found Quilon to be the only port in India used by the huge Chinese ships as their Transhipment hub for their goods on their way from China to the Persian Gulf.

They are an established merchant community in Malabar and unlike other Muslims, they follow a matrilinial system of inheritance called Marumakkathayam.

It was maintained by Tamil merchant guilds at the port town during its time as a popular pilgrimage destination and famed emporium, having extensive contacts with Asia, Africa, Europe and the rest of the Malabar Coast.

of Defense for the period ending Dec. 31, 1918 are 116, 516 ; which includes 53, 402 battle deaths and 63, 114 non combat deaths., The US Coast Guard lost an additional 192 dead .." United States estimated civilian losses include 128 killed on the RMS Lusitania as well as 629 Merchant Marine personnel killed on merchant ships.

As a wealthy port metropolis, with over 42, 000 inhabitants ( although that almost doubles in the summer months ), it is an important merchant city on the Sword Coast.

A Coast Guard tripod navigation marker in the bay just offshore of Meig's Beach, Port Dixie, was removed after merchant commerce ceased to Ferry Point.

A large swath of River Street, known as the Barbary Coast for its taverns and boarding houses ( which had been home for many dockworkers, sailors, merchant marines, and other seamen ) was leveled as part of an urban renewal project.

The Berbers along the Barbary Coast ( modern day Libya ) sent pirates to capture merchant ships and hold the crews for ransom.

Pilots are also merchant marine officers and are licensed by the Coast Guard.

At the age of 15, he was taken by a Gold Coast ivory merchant and sold to a Dutch captain for two yards of check cloth.

During World War II, the need for efficient transportation of bulk materials within the continental United States was well demonstrated after German submarines sank numerous merchant ships off the East Coast.

During the nineteenth century, European and American merchant ships were under threat by pirates from what was called " The Barbary Coast ".

* United States Coast Guard pilot Lieutenant, junior grade, Stewart Graham makes the first helicopter flight from a merchant ship in convoy in the North Atlantic Ocean.

Muslim pirates of Algiers, Morocco, Tunis, and Tripoli Barbary Coast had attacked, enslaved and held American merchant sailors for ransom, soon after the establishment of the United States of America in 1776 ( see First Barbary War ).

A German Gold Coast merchant wrote " The island of Fernando Po is inhabited by a savage and cruel sort of people ," and that Europeans did not dare to dock upon their beaches, for fear of surprise attacks from natives with dart-weapons.

In 1783 he joined the merchant service and in 1785, based in India, formed the Northwest America Company for collecting sea otter furs by trade with the Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast and selling them in China.

For more than a decade on the East Coast in New York, Conness learned to make pianofortes and also worked as a merchant.

The ceremony of Crossing the Line is an initiation rite in the Dutch merchant navy, Royal Navy, U. S. Navy, U. S. Coast Guard, U. S. Marine Corps, and other navies that commemorates a sailor's first crossing of the Equator.

In early 1942 both the training and licensing was transferred to the U. S. Coast Guard for administration, but then late in the fall of 1942, the Maritime Service was transferred to the newly created War Shipping Administration which itself was created for the purpose of overseeing the operation of the fleet of merchant ships being built by the Emergency Program for the needs of the U. S. Armed Services.

After acquiring the skills needed to become a merchant captain, Burns sailed along the East Coast of the United States, all the way north up to Maine.

With something finally to trade and needing everything from nails, needles and almost anything made out of metal to fancy thread and cloth that could be sewn into fancy cloaks or ladies dresses, etc., they started trading with merchant ships from Boston, Massachusetts, Britain and other trading ports in Europe and the East Coast of the United States.

Submarine chasers were used mostly by the United States Coast Guard in World War II for destroying German U-boats that were stationed off the coast of the United States that were trying to sink merchant convoys as they departed American ports.

Before separating in December 1717, Blackbeard and Bonnet plundered and captured merchant ships along the East Coast.

Returning to the Gold Coast as a merchant, he was appointed a Justice of the Peace and was Civil Commandant of Christiansborg, Accra from 1850 to 1857.

No further medals were awarded until the year 2003 when six medals were awarded to a crew of Police Coast Guard officers led by DSP1 Tan Wee Wah Stephen who responded and conducted rescue efforts after a collision of the Republic of Singapore Navy's RSS Courageous and a merchant ship, ANL Indonesia which occurred on 3 January 2003.

The Coast Guard Ensign ( flag ) was first flown by the Revenue Cutter Service in 1799 to distinguish revenue cutters from merchant ships.

The merchant vessel documention functions were also transferred to the Coast Guard in 1946.

One of such was Timoji, who operated off Anjadip Island both as a privateer ( by seizing horse traders, that he rendered to the raja of Honavar ) and as a pirate who attacked the Kerala merchant fleets that traded pepper with Gujarat.

Elihu Yale ( April 5, 1649 – July 8, 1721 ) was an American merchant and philanthropist, governor of the East India Company settlement at Madras and a benefactor of the Collegiate School of Connecticut, which in 1718 was named Yale College in his honor.

By 1669, the Dutch East India Company was the richest private company in history, with a huge fleet of merchant ships and warships, tens of thousands of employees, a private army consisting of thousands of soldiers, and a reputation on the part of its stockholders for high dividend payments.

The nationalists in the freedom struggle of India dubbed Calcutta University, another pillar of India ’ s education movement, as “ Goldighir Ghulamkhana ”, or the slave house of Goldighi, with reference to the lake adjacent to Calcutta University, and the number of graduates it churned out who were used in British merchant offices as clerks.

* Niccolò Da Conti ( 1395 – 1469 ), Venetian merchant and explorer, born in Chioggia, who traveled to India and Southeast Asia.

* Dutch merchant Willem Kieft is appointed Director of New Amsterdam by the Dutch West India Company.

Cosmas Indicopleustes, a merchant of Alexandria, who lived in the 6th century, and made a voyage to India, and subsequently wrote works on cosmography, gives a figure of the unicorn, not, as he says, from actual sight of it, but reproduced from four figures of it in brass contained in the palace of the King of Ethiopia.

In India travels in the sixteenth century there were also used carracks, large merchant ships with a high edge and three masts with square sails, that reached 2000 tons.

Several accounts, based on remarks written by the gem's first known owner, French gem merchant Jean Baptiste Tavernier, suggest the gemstone originated in India, in the Kollur mine in the Guntur district of Andhra Pradesh ( which at the time had been part of the Golconda kingdom ), in the seventeenth century.

In 1718, the name of the Collegiate School was changed to Yale College in response to a large donation from British East India Company merchant Elihu Yale, former Governor of Madras.

In Brazil, he briefly captured the Portuguese settlement of Salvador, personally leading the assault on the sea fortress of that town. In August with a small and undermanned fleet he sailed for the African west coast and attacked a Portuguese fleet in a strongly defended bay of Luanda but failed to capture any ships. He then crossed the Atlantic ocean again to try and capture merchant ships at the city of Vitória, but was defeated by a resistance organized by the local civilians, with assistance by a Portuguese garrison. After finding Salvador recaptured by a large Spanish-Portuguese fleet Heyn returned home. The Dutch West India Company were pleased with Heyn's leadership qualities and in 1626 placed him in command of a new squadron. In subsequent raids in 1627 at Salvador, he attacked and captured over thirty richly laden Portuguese merchant ships before returning to the United Provinces.

) ( Antwerp, 11 ( or 21 ) August 1583, – Amsterdam, 23 December 1651, ) was a Flemish / Dutch merchant and director of the Dutch West India Company from 1622 to 1629 and again from 1636 to 1642.

* William Methwold ( 1590 – 1653 ), born South Pickenham, East India Company merchant

* Isaac Le Maire, pioneering merchant of the VOC, the Dutch East India Company ( 16th century )

Florentine merchant Giovanni da Empoli, who had written a report about trade with China while stationed in India, was also chosen for the mission as the chief commercial agent between the Portuguese and Chinese.

The treaty came at a time as the influence of the British East India Company was waning and the individual merchant was gaining more influence within Great Britain.

The former of these were vital to the British, as merchant traffic between British India and England depended upon coaling stations on the approach to the Suez Canal.

Osho was born Chandra Mohan Jain, the eldest of eleven children of a cloth merchant, at his maternal grandparents ' house in Kuchwada ; a small village in the Raisen district of Madhya Pradesh state in India.

Berkeley married Christian or Christiana Riccard, daughter of Sir Andrew Riccard, a wealthy London merchant, in the East India Company ; she had already been married first to Sir John Geare, and subsequently ( 14 February 1659 ) to Henry Rich, Lord Kensington, son of Robert Rich, 5th Earl of Warwick.

His father, François Dupleix, a wealthy farmer, wished to bring him up as a merchant, and, in order to distract him from his taste for science, sent him on a voyage to India in 1715 on one of the French East India Company's vessels.

The wealth this brought to the town is demonstrated in the surviving houses built by landowning and merchant families as well as local street names of " America Street ", " California Street ", " Baltic Street " and " India Street " evidencing its trading heritage.

At the age of fourteen he finds service on an East India Company merchant ship to China, under the command of his future nemesis Tyler Brock.