merchant fleet in a sentence

Examples

1. During wartime, much of Bermuda's merchant fleet turned to more lucrative labors : privateering.
2. As of 2004, China's merchant fleet had 3, 497 ships.
3. Later that year he also captured a merchant fleet of 9 ships from Ostende.
4. The merchant fleets were usually composed by sailors from Pakistan.
5. The Japanese merchant fleet lost 80 % of their ships.
6. Greeks control the world's largest merchant fleet with an armada of 3, 246 ships.
7. Between 1940 and 1991 the company was part of the Soviet Union Merchant Fleet.
8. During the following 200 years, the merchant fleet expanded and trade continued to grow.
9. Each navy plundered the merchant fleets of the opposing side in the Eastern Mediterranean.
10. He worked in the merchant fleet from 1906 to 1908 and 1909 to 1911.