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Merchantman may mean:
  • A cargo ship
    Cargo ship
    A cargo ship or freighter is any sort of ship or vessel that carries cargo, goods, and materials from one port to another. Thousands of cargo carriers ply the world's seas and oceans each year; they handle the bulk of international trade...

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    • ST Merchantman, a tug in service with United Towing Co Ltd from 1946 to 1962.
  • The British name for the freighter conversion of the Vickers Vanguard
    Vickers Vanguard
    The Type 950 Vanguard was a British short/medium-range turboprop airliner introduced in 1959 by Vickers-Armstrongs, a development of their successful Viscount design with considerably more internal room. The Vanguard was introduced just before the first of the large jet-powered airliners, and was...

     airliner.
  • The colloquial name for a mercaptan additive to normally odourless Liquified petroleum gas
    Liquified petroleum gas
    Liquefied petroleum gas is a mixture of hydrocarbon gases used as a fuel in heating appliances and vehicles, and increasingly replacing chlorofluorocarbons as an aerosol propellant and a refrigerant to reduce damage to the ozone layer, inferring that it is flammable.Varieties of LPG bought and...

     that gives it a pungent odour.