| They live happily for some years, until Enoch is compelled through temporary adversity to go as boatswain in a merchantman. |
| In 1611 a Dutch merchantman reached Hirado with a cargo of pepper, cloth, ivory, silk and lead. |
| The captain of a submarine is shown observing through the periscope a broken-backed merchantman, torpedoed fair amidships and sinking by the bow, with the complacent rhyme. |
| He shouted fresh commands and the oarsmen went to work again, backing the ship away from the sinking merchantman. |
| They placed a bomb in a vital spot and set it off, sinking the merchantman. |
| I know every rope on a merchantman, kin name 'em from fore royal stay to topping lift, but that ain't the hundredth part on it. |
