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• n  a cargo ship

• The Government hopes that lessons learned in building the Savannah will make the power plant of the atomic tanker lighter and cheaper than that of the merchantman.
• The German High Command announced that the pocket battleship Deutschland, sinker of the British armed merchantman Rawalpindi (and little else), reached home "recently.
• Her gallantry: cast adrift from a torpedoed merchantman in the South Atlantic, she had survived a 52-day ordeal in an open lifeboat.

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• freighter
• merchant ship