11.   Its harbor was a good site to anchor warships and merchant vessels.

12.   It turned out to be a merchant vessel.

13.   The Coast Guard said it was investigating a report from a merchant vessel that said it had picked up nine people and one body.

14.   The fires are intentionally lighted under the caldrons at night in the hope that the great merchant vessels will be lured toward the shore.

15.   The title simply related to the fastest Atlantic crossing, east or west, in a day when merchant vessels were the only links between the continents.

16.   The transaction must be approved by the U.S. Maritime Administration, which oversees regulations prohibiting too much foreign control over merchant vessels that receive subsidies.

17.   They even got diplomas, of a sort, discharge papers from the ship, required on merchant vessels.

18.   This year, the allies expanded their operation to include questioning every merchant vessel.

19.   When the ship turned out to be a merchant vessel, the soldiers collected their uniforms and returned to their coastline posts.

20.   A Portuguese submarine collided with a merchant vessel in the English Channel Thursday morning but no injuries were reported, the Ministry of Defense said.