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Definition of merchant navy in English: merchant navynoun often the merchant navyBritish A country's commercial shipping, as opposed to that involved in military activity. Example sentencesExamples - For several years Pádraig served as a radio officer on board many ships of the merchant navy.
- Frankie thinks his dad doesn't see them because he's away at sea with the merchant navy.
- He served in the merchant navy and later the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve.
- Otley-born Roy left school at 14, joined the merchant navy at 15 and by the time he was 18 had made eight Atlantic crossings.
- A musical career proved fruitless, however, and he joined the merchant navy and later, legend has it, became a pirate.
- He became a steward in the merchant navy, and was a trade union activist.
- In 1918 he joined the merchant navy, then did military service before returning to Paris in 1922.
- A graduate with a degree in Marine Engineering can apply for direct recruitment with a merchant navy shipping firm in the engineering department
- The happy couple met while they were both in the merchant navy in 1948, but only starting going out together a decade ago.
- In her old age the Cutty Sark became a merchant navy training ship.
- Ninety per cent of the merchant navy had to be handed over, along with 10 per cent of the cattle and a substantial proportion of the rolling stock of the state railway.
- Prime Minister Curtin emphasized Australia's need for an adequate merchant navy and shipbuilding and repair facilities.
- My father may have been in the merchant navy, but that doesn't mean there's salt water coursing through my veins.
- Their father, who was in the merchant navy, died in May after undergoing a heart operation at the age of 54.
- Then he left school, an unqualified bully, and joined the merchant navy.
- I was in bad situations during the seven years of the war and seven years in the merchant navy after that.
- Vance seemed to have had it relatively easy, helped by a former job in the catering division of the merchant navy.
- The law was originally designed to protect the merchant navy from financial ruin during wartime.
- He was a scout messenger during the war and then spent 15 years in the merchant navy.
- On finishing school he joined the merchant navy.
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