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Adam Brown
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Re: Shipmaster

Post by Adam Brown » Mon Mar 08, 2010 2:50 pm

The Merchant Navy is the official name used since 1922. Before that it was the Merchant Marine (or Mercantile Marine) and before that the Merchant Service. The MM and MS both seem to have used in the middle-to-late nineteenth century.

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