| 31. | Commerce was booming at the time and the merchant fleet was constantly on the rise.
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| 32. | A single merchant fleet could more easily be protected by the Spanish Armada or Navy.
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| 33. | This Scandinavian nation of 4 . 5 million people has the world's third-largest merchant fleet.
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| 34. | Swartenhondt started his career on the merchant fleet, becoming a cabin boy at age eleven.
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| 35. | On 13 December 1641 Caron sailed back to Europe as commander of the merchant fleet.
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| 36. | She made herself responsible for the export, and created a merchant fleet with twenty ships.
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| 37. | After the war, the ship remained a part of the Soviet merchant fleet until 1966.
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| 38. | Even the lack of an Argentine merchant fleet allowed Britain to manage the maritime trade.
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| 39. | The Swedish merchant fleet had about 70 ships built in Timmernabben between 1850 and 1900.
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| 40. | Venezuela's merchant fleet remains anchored, its crews having joined the strike on Dec . 5.
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