merchant marine
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"Given the size of the ships, electronic assistance has become necessary to steer them," said one merchant marine captain who has sailed on cargo ships around the world.
From Barron's • Mar. 8, 2026
One was a former merchant marine whose wooden 32-foot ketch was barely adequate for a journey through the punishing Southern Ocean.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 5, 2025
Greece’s minister for merchant marine, Miltiadis Varvitsiotis, expressed “shock, horror and sorrow” at the incident, and identified the victim as Andonis Kargiotis, 36.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 6, 2023
In 1977, he worked as a merchant marine, which took him to Amsterdam for two months, where Kwiatek went to the Rijksmuseum or the Van Gogh Museum every day.
From New York Times • Apr. 24, 2023
At sixteen he joined the merchant marine, and his first voyage took him around Cape Horn in the winter: it was his first experience of the Southern Ocean.
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
