After service against French forces in the West Indies during what was called the “Quasi-War,” the Navy in 1800 handed Bainbridge the command of a converted merchant ship, the George Washington.

The Admiral Scheer, one of Germany’s powerful pocket battleships, roared forward at full speed to attack an Allied convoy of 38 merchant ships. Armed with six 28-centimeter guns and reaching an ...

The Admiral Scheer, a formidable German pocket battleship predating Hitler’s regime, unleashed its full might against an Allied convoy of 38 merchant vessels, relying on its remarkable speed and ...

The second ship to bear Delaware’s name was a 20-gun converted merchant ship bought by the Navy in 1798 and sold off in 1801. The third Delaware was 74-gun ship of the line which had a crew of more ...

As I read the many Sea Service (Navy, Coast Guard, and Merchant Marine) periodicals, it is easy to see there are many more advertisements for ship reunions from World War II than any other kind ...

Two other German raiders sunk: > The British cruiser Dorsetshire, which fired the final shot into the Bismarck, downed a converted 10,000-ton merchant ship somewhere in the South Atlantic.

We were sailing from Sydney to Wellington, in the Tasman Sea, when attacked by a German converted Merchant ship, the Raider Orion. She was disguised as a Japanese vessel, the Tokyo Maru.

From a vertical tube sunk below the main deck of the U.S.S. Observation Island, a converted merchant marine ship cruising seven miles off Cape Canaveral, Fla., a 28-ft. Polaris missile last week ...