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Merchant and ships
and now, therefore, do I, John A. Notte, Jr., Governor of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, proclaim Monday, May 22nd, 1961, as National Maritime Day, reminding our citizens that American Merchant ships and American seamen are ready at all times to serve our Nation in the cause of freedom and justice.
Teach may have used other aliases ; on 30 November, the Monserrat Merchant encountered two ships and a sloop, commanded by a Captain Kentish and Captain Edwards ( the latter a known alias of Stede Bonnet ).
* Merchant marine, a collective term for all of the merchant ships, shipping companies, and merchant mariners, usually of a particular country ; also known in British usage as the Merchant Navy
Merchant shipping is lifeblood to the world economy, carrying 90 % of international trade with 102, 194 commercial ships worldwide.
The Merchant Marine Act of 1920 had allowed the Shipping Board to sell ships made by the U. S. Government to private American companies.
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.
* converted merchant ships, e. g., Merchant aircraft carriers, Catapult Aircraft Merchantman and armed merchant cruisers
The loss of a modern battleship more than outweighed the loss of an old battlecruiser, and that debacle almost put an end to Raeder's strategy of using capital ships to destroy the British Merchant Marine.
It was also used extensively in the British Merchant Navy, where many gay men joined ocean liners and cruise ships as waiters, stewards and entertainers.
Merchant ships fill San Francisco harbor, 1850-51
Normal practice for UK ships is to fly the White ensign ( Royal Navy ) or the Red ensign ( Merchant and private boats ).
* 1938, Merchant ship Ems for shipping company Norddeutscher Lloyd, in WW II used as auxiliary cruiser Komet, 1942 sunk by planes and ships of Royal Air Force and Royal Navy
:* Merchant ships-oil tankers, gas tankers, cargo ships, bulk carriers, container ships
Memorial to members of the Royal Norwegian Navy, Army and Merchant Marine in Halifax Regional Municipality | Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, on the flag plaza outside the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic. On June 7, 1940 13 ships, five aircraft and 500 men from the Royal Norwegian Navy followed the King to the United Kingdom and continued the fight from bases there until the war ended.
Merchant raiders are armed commerce raiding ships that disguise themselves as non-combatant merchant vessels.
Contained within the Admiralty records files with the 1731 correspondence from Jamaica was a List of British Merchant ships taken or plundered by the Spaniards compiled in 1737, listing 52 ships, among them, Rebecca, Robert Jenkins, Jamaica to London, boarded and plundered near the Havana, 9 April 1731.
Due to international conventions and agreements, in which all ships ' personnel who sail internationally are similarly documented by their respective countries, the U. S. Merchant Marine assigns such duties to the chief steward in the overall rank and command structure of which pursers are not positionally represented or rostered.
Category: Merchant ships of the Netherlands
Merchant ships are almost always classed by a classification society.
* The United States Maritime Commission was intended to formulate a merchant shipbuilding program to design and build five hundred modern merchant cargo ships for the U. S. Merchant Marine.
Merchant ships in the island's docks were scuttled, and demolitions were carried out at Kowloon Naval Yard and on the island.

Merchant and light
Only the sacrifice of the Armed Merchant Cruiser HMS Jervis Bay and failing light allowed the rest of the convoy to escape.
5 ships were quickly sunk, and only the sacrifice of the Armed Merchant Cruiser HMS Jervis Bay and failing light allowed the rest of the convoy to escape.
The Royal Navy ( and Merchant Navy ), Army, and Royal Air Force are represented by stripes of dark blue, red, and light blue respectively.
The sand of the desert is represented by pale buff, the Royal Navy ( and Merchant Navy ), British Army, and Royal Air Force are represented by stripes of dark blue, red, and light blue respectively.
However, as Gervais and Merchant began to invite him to make the odd comment, Pilkington's persona came to light and his popularity increased.

Merchant and made
Section 515 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1894 formerly made provision for compensation for riot damage.
Merchant did extensive touring for the album and made numerous television appearances, including performances on SNL, The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and all late-night talk shows.
Admiral Cunningham ordered a signal to be made on the Merchant Marine emergency band.
O ' Mara made her stage debut in a production of The Merchant of Venice in 1963.
Together with Rudolph Schildkraut he performed in Reinhardt's staging of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, now emphasizing his melodious speech, which despite first damning reviews finally made him a star.
Merchant cites Francis Bacon's use of female metaphors to describe the exploitation of nature at this time was telling: " she is either free ,... or driven out of her ordinary course by the perverseness, insolence and forwardness of matter and violence of impediments ... or she is put in constraint, molded and made as it were new by art and the hand of man ; as in things artificial ... nature takes orders from man and works under his authority " ( Bacon in Merchant 1990: 282 ).
In honour of the sacrifice made by merchant seamen during the First World War, King George V granted the title " Merchant Navy " to the service.
The Prince of Wales was made the Master of the Merchant Navy.
In honour of the sacrifices made during the two World Wars, the Merchant Navy lays wreaths of remembrance alongside the armed forces during the annual Remembrance Day service on 11 November.
Following many years of lobbying to bring about official recognition of the sacrifices made by merchant seamen in two world wars and since, Merchant Navy Day became an official day of remembrance on 3 September 2000.
Paterson returned to London and made his fortune with foreign trade ( primarily with the West Indies ) in the Merchant Taylors ' Company.
** a novella of the same title, later made into a Merchant Ivory film
In 1931, the award was made available to members of the Merchant Navy and in 1940 eligibility was further extended to non-naval personnel ( British Army and Royal Air Force ) serving aboard a British vessel.
She is perhaps best known for her long collaboration with Merchant Ivory Productions, made up of director James Ivory and the late producer Ismail Merchant.
After this he aided both with information and advice the Muscovy Company expedition of Hugh Willoughby and Richard Chancellor, was made life-governor of the " Company of Merchant Adventurers ", and equipped ( 1557 ) the expedition of Steven Borough.
He made a brief appearance in the 1936 Nelson Eddy-Jeanette MacDonald film Rose Marie, singing music from Charles Gounod's Romeo et Juliette and Giacomo Puccini's Tosca, but according to Merchant of Dreams, Charles Higham's biography of Louis B. Mayer, Eddy, who apparently considered Jones a rival and a potential threat, asked that most of Jones's footage in Rose Marie be cut, including his rendition of the great Puccini aria E lucevan le stelle-and MGM agreed to Eddy's demand.
Kellerman made a brief appearance in Rocky Balboa alongside Lampley and Merchant, who served as the broadcast team for the fight between Rocky and Mason Dixon.
Frankie Lymon filled in for Santiago, however according to Jimmy Merchant, once the precocious Lymon became an established member of the group, his vocal talent and instinctive stage presence made him the obvious choice to be the group's lead vocalist, and Santiago graciously stepped aside.
Merchant made his film directorial debut with 1993's In Custody based on a novel by Anita Desai, and starring Bollywood actor Shashi Kapoor.
In the same year, Samuel Phelps made his London début as Shylock in The Merchant of Venice at the theatre, also playing in other Shakespearean plays here.
The purpose of the Maritime Commission was multifold as described in the Merchant Marine Act's Declaration of Policy. The first role was to formulate a merchant shipbuilding program to design and then have built over a ten year period 500 modern fast merchant cargo ships which would replace the World War I-vintage vessels which made up the bulk of the U. S. Merchant Marine prior to the Act.

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