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