11.   Critics also contend that the ability to commandeer merchant ships is not so crucial as it was in the cold war.

12.   Explorers found pre-cut granite columns from Egypt and fine cookware from Italy aboard a merchant ship that sank in the time of Christ.

13.   He visited countries from Peru to Holland to Singapore, often traveling as a seaman on merchant ships.

14.   He then sailed a captured merchant ship for home.

15.   His father, Frank, was a Works Progress Administration laborer who later worked on a merchant ship as a cook.

16.   Playwright Athol Fugard takes a lyrical journey into memory on a merchant ship out of his native South Africa.

17.   Since November, the allied coalition has been closely watching about two dozen merchant ships that have ties to al-Qaida.

18.   Some of the people picked up by the merchant ship were injured, he said.

19.   Tanks as big as merchant ships are presented in recruiting ads as high-tech toys.

20.   The boat sank, and the children were rescued by a merchant ship.