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Maritime evidence includes a merchant ship, stone anchors, and what officials described as a harbour crane, clustered near a 125-metre dock that the antiquities ministry said served as a harbour for small boats until the Byzantine period.
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Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 22 Aug. 2025
American merchant ships, Hopper notes, had already developed a significant trade with Oman by the mid-nineteenth century.
—Jacob Jones, JSTOR Daily, 13 Aug. 2025
Or further, the many more miles of cordage needed by non-whaling merchant ships and naval vessels.
—Literary Hub, 12 Aug. 2025
The Lisbon Maru — a Japanese merchant ship covertly carrying around 1,800 British POWs in the Far East — is torpedoed by mistake off the coast of China’s Dongji Island by an American submarine, unaware of the lives hidden below deck.
—Patrick Brzeski, HollywoodReporter, 28 July 2025
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Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 22 Aug. 2025
American merchant ships, Hopper notes, had already developed a significant trade with Oman by the mid-nineteenth century.
—Jacob Jones, JSTOR Daily, 13 Aug. 2025
Or further, the many more miles of cordage needed by non-whaling merchant ships and naval vessels.
—Literary Hub, 12 Aug. 2025
The Lisbon Maru — a Japanese merchant ship covertly carrying around 1,800 British POWs in the Far East — is torpedoed by mistake off the coast of China’s Dongji Island by an American submarine, unaware of the lives hidden below deck.
—Patrick Brzeski, HollywoodReporter, 28 July 2025
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“Merchant ship.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/merchant%20ship. Accessed 30 Sep. 2025.
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