Merchant fleet

Definition

Trading ships and their crews that transport goods and passengers, rather than warships belonging to a navy.

Used by OCR

Paper 1

These communities were small, but their significance was greater than their size. Their labour supported Britain’s merchant fleet, and their settlement helped make port cities places where people from many backgrounds lived and worked together long before twentieth-century mass migration.
Revise: Non-European communities

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GCSE History · key term

Trading ships and their crews that transport goods and passengers, rather than warships belonging to a navy.

Used by OCR

Paper 1

These communities were small, but their significance was greater than their size. Their labour supported Britain’s merchant fleet, and their settlement helped make port cities places where people from many backgrounds lived and worked together long before twentieth-century mass migration.
Revise: Non-European communities

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