| 1. | The 3rd Division consisted of the smaller screw gunboats and armed merchantmen.
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| 2. | She attacked 19 Allied armed merchantmen but only succeeded in sinking 9 of them.
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| 3. | In World War I, some ships were refitted as Armed merchantmen or auxiliary minelayers.
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| 4. | In 1914 she was re-fitted to become one of the Admiralty's Armed merchantmen.
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| 5. | Initially obsolescent cruisers were used but these were later replaced by Armed Merchantmen which had better seakeeping qualities.
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| 6. | Most of its ships were probably armed merchantmen, carrying around 40 guns, a few were probably larger.
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| 7. | The Axis threat to Australia developed gradually and until 1942 was limited to sporadic attacks by German armed merchantmen.
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| 8. | On their approach three large armed merchantmen, commanded to assist the guard ships, lost courage and fled.
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| 9. | The Spanish fleet, numbering two galleons and ten well armed merchantmen, also received extra munitions and armaments.
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| 10. | Promoted to captain in June 1915 and later given command of the armed merchantman HMS " Calliope ".
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