Subsequently it provided succour to ships, both naval and merchant, that found themselves in distress.
Relief is pouring in from all quarters, and excellent service is being rendered by British and foreign naval and merchant ships in sheltering the fugitives and bringing relief.
As in the case of naval and merchant vessels, auxiliaries carrying both sail and power were the yacht fashion for a number of years.
Some pirates had turned to buccaneering after fleeing naval and merchant vessels, where the captain was essentially a dictator—"his Authority is over all that are in his Possession," as one contemporary account had it.
The crews of naval and merchant fleets of the time included "men of colour"—even, in a few instances, as captains.When, as happened during the Napoleonic wars, a slaver's ship was captured by French privateers, the blacks aboard were often treated more carefully than the white seamen.
Stalin induced Truman and Attlee to consent provisionally to the Soviet Union's demands that it should take one-third of Germany's naval and merchant fleet; have the right to exact reparations from its occupied zones of Germany and of Austria and also from Finland, Hungary, Romania, and even Bulgaria; and should furthermore receive a percentage of reparation from the western-occupied zones.
In the early months of World War II, as German U-boats were sinking naval and merchant ships in the Atlantic, Lawrence Holt, a British shipping executive, resolved to improve the dismal survival rate of young seamen left to struggle in the ocean after the attacks.
They were introduced in the second half of the 18th century and were in common use for naval and merchant ships in the 19th century.
Hence, four different correlations (Eqs. (15)–(18)) have been developed to predict the mass suction over a wide range of operating parameters which have been used to design the IRS device for naval or merchant ship.
Japanese shipping, both naval and merchant, also suffered drastically, as did hangars and aircraft installations.
