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Excerpt from Merchant Adventurers: 1914-1918
The aid of the Mercantile Marine of Great Britain towards the winning of the war needs today no laboured emphasis. Built, organised and manned by the enterprise of citizen owners; torn from its accustomed adventures, with the perils of war added to the common perils of the sea; with decks armed, at the outset, not at all, and later but lightly armed; its hulls unprotected; its personnel, although disciplined, untrained in war - it has yet won, for all time, a place of honour in the nation's history.
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