The day is now appropriately set aside to honor the American men and women who have contributed to the success of our merchant marine fleet in peace and war.

In 2005, Cameroon ’ s merchant fleet consisted of one petroleum tanker, totalling 169, 593 GRT.

* 1637 – Eighty Years ' War: Off the coast of Cornwall, England, a Spanish fleet intercepts an important Anglo-Dutch merchant convoy of 44 vessels escorted by 6 warships, destroying or capturing 20 of them.

The Dutch navy had three principal tasks in the struggle against Spain: to protect Dutch merchant ships at sea, to blockade the ports of Spanish-held Flanders to damage trade and halt enemy privateering, and to fight the Spanish fleet and prevent troop landings.

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.

Cook was taken on as a merchant navy apprentice in their small fleet of vessels, plying coal along the English coast.

Wortham was responsible for fusing John's galleys, the ships of the Cinque Ports and pressed merchant vessels into a single operational fleet.

" The period featured various but often disjointed efforts by the court of Queen Elizabeth to develop a naval and merchant fleet capable of challenging the Spanish stranglehold on trade and of expanding the growth of bullion at home.

Adam Smith himself, for instance, praised the Navigation Acts as they greatly expanded the British merchant fleet, and played a central role in turning Britain into the naval and economic superpower from the 18th Century onward.

In 2001, Bahrain had a merchant fleet of eight ships of 1, 000 GRT or over, totaling 270, 784 GRT.

As of 2004, China's merchant fleet had 3, 497 ships.

As of 2007, China's merchant fleet had 1, 775 ships ( or over ) /

At that time, the city was a very important commercial centre and controlled a significant Mediterranean merchant fleet and navy.

In 1999 the country's merchant marine fleet included 9 ships ( 1, 000 GRT or over ) totaling 43, 587 GRT /— four cargo ships, one container ship, one refrigerated cargo ship and three roll-on / roll-off ships.

An individual nation's fleet and the people that crew it are referred to as its merchant navy or merchant marine.

His merchant fleet could only be rivaled by Abdul Goffur of Surat although other nobles such as Asaf Khan and Safi Khan owned seaborne vessels.

As of 2008, Tanzania's merchant fleet consisted of 9 Tanzanian-flagged vessels and 1 registered in Honduras.

Mittie's brother, Theodore's uncle, James Dunwoody Bulloch, was a United States Navy officer who became a Confederate Navy commander and secret agent in Britain who was most responsible for the destruction of the United States merchant fleet and procuring ships and supplies to run through the Union blockade.

For long periods of the last millennium Britain had the largest merchant fleet in the world, but it has slipped down the rankings as Flag of convenience has grown.

Norway lost about 50 % of its merchant fleet, percentage-wise the highest loss of any nation's merchant fleet in World War I.

The estimated total displacement of Albania's merchant fleet was 56, 000 tons in 1986.

Defoe entered the world of business as a general merchant, dealing at different times in hosiery, general woollen goods and wine.

He then entered his father's merchant business.

The tower was built by a linen merchant in order to view ships as they entered the Forth, affording the merchant the opportunity to procure the best goods at port.

However, Cabral entered into a conflict with the local Arab merchant guilds, with the result that the Portuguese factory was overrun in a riot and up to 70 Portuguese killed.

While in Italy, he entered the household of the Florentine merchant banker Francesco Frescobaldi.

Originally a wealthy merchant from Yamashiro Province ( modern-day Kyoto Prefecture ), he entered the service of Nagai Nagahiro of Mino Province ( southern half of modern-day Gifu Prefecture ), assuming the name Nishimura Kankurô.

With Gabriel Cerré, a wealthy merchant of St. Louis, he entered into trade with the Indians, and for some time maintained his headquarters on the site of Nashville, TN.

The merchant fishermen at the falls acted as middlemen or factors, and passed the objects of traffic, as it were, cross-handed ; trading away part of the wares received from the mountain tribes to those of the rivers and plains, and vice versa: their packages of pounded salmon entered largely into the system of barter, and being carried off in opposite directions, found their way to the savage hunting camps far in the interior, and to the casual white traders who touched upon the coast.

French entry into the war would lead to further escalation of the war when Spain entered the fight against England as France's ally, after the signing of the Treaty of Aranjuez on April 12, 1779, and again in December 1780 when England declared war on the Dutch Republic after seizing a Dutch merchant ship they claimed was carrying contraband to France during the Affair of Fielding and Bylandt.

He was born at Mountmellick, County Laois, Ireland, in 1773, and moved to the United States in 1790, where he settled in Philadelphia, and entered the merchant marine.

# Merchant focused-This is similar to the consumer focused scenario, however the transaction is entered and completed by the merchant ( or their representative ).

After the United States entered World War II, Operation Drumbeat set the top U-Boat aces loose against the merchant fleet in U. S. territorial waters in January 1942, starting the Second happy time.

Born in the Edgbaston district of Birmingham, England on 31 October 1890, son of a coal merchant called Arthur Brockhurst, he soon showed precocious drawing skills and entered the Birmingham School of Art at the age of twelve.

Once again, Rochester resigned from most of his duties ( including vacating his Assembly seat ) and entered into a business partnership with Thomas Hart, a notable and wealthy merchant and land speculator.

By the Victorian era, the silk industry had entered a long decline and the old merchant dwellings had degenerated into multi-occupied slums.

Merchant service officers and men serving in armed merchant cruisers, hospital ships, fleet auxiliaries and transports were entered in the RNR for the duration of the war on special agreements.

In 1745, when John was 17, he was apprenticed to a Liverpool merchant for five years and then entered into partnership with his father.

Here he entered Persia ( August 27, 1664 ), proceeding by Kermanshah and Hamadan to Isfahan, where he spent five months ( October 1664-February 1665 ), and then joining company with the merchant Tavernier, proceeded by Shiraz and Lar to Bander-Abbasi, in the hope of finding a passage to India.

She was the daughter of a cloth merchant, an ugly child who eventually entered into an arranged marriage and bore a daughter, Clara, whom she loved dearly.

Tárrega entered the Madrid conservatory in 1874, under the sponsorship of a wealthy merchant named Antonio Canesa.

Meanwhile, Aramaic or Arabic features such as whb (" gave ") and tgr " merchant " entered the language, with whb becoming especially common in proper names.

Benbow left the Navy and entered the merchant service, sailing a merchant vessel from London and Bristol to ports in Italy and Spain.