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Commerce destroyer

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cruisernoun(nautical) A passenger ship used for pleasure voyages, where the voyage itself and the ship's amenities are considered an essential part of the experience.
torpedo cruisernoun(military, nautical, chiefly historical) A large warship using torpedoes (the self-propelled naval weapons) as its primary armament.
torpedo catchernoun(military, nautical) A small, fast gunboat for pursuing and destroying torpedo boats.
hunter-killernoun(military) A submarine designed to seek and destroy other vessels.
merchant shipnoun(nautical) A ship that is principally or (usually) entirely civilian, engaged in trade, which carries cargo, passengers, or both.
submarine chasernounA small, fast naval vessel intended specifically for antisubmarine warfare.
landing shipnoun(military, nautical) a sea-going military light ferry designed to assault shores that are held against them, and disembark forces directly onto the shore
minehunternounA naval vessel that actively detects and destroys individual mines.
q-shipnoun(military, historical) A merchant ship with concealed weaponry, designed to lure submarines into making surface attacks.
clippernoun(chiefly in the plural) A tool used for clipping something, such as hair, coins, or fingernails.
corvettenoun(nautical) In a modern navy, a lightly armed and armoured blue water warship, smaller than a frigate, capable of transoceanic duty.
coastal motor boatnoun(nautical) a small warship used in the Royal Navy during the First World War that carried torpedoes, mines or depth charges.
pocket battleshipnoun(nautical) Any of a class of German cruisers, having guns normally found on a battleship, operated during World War II; a battlecruiser.
marquenounA brand of a manufactured product, especially of a motor car.
cargo vesselnoun(nautical) Any vessel designed to carry cargo.
seacraftnounA ship or other vehicle capable of travelling on the ocean.
cargo shipnounA ship that carries cargo.
crarenounA slow unwieldy trading vessel.
cutternounA person or device that cuts (in various senses).
battleshipnoun(military, nautical) A large capital warship displacing thousands to tens of thousands of tons, heavily armoured and armed with large-caliber guns; now obsolescent and replaced by smaller vessels with guided missiles.

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