merchant vessel
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From 266 U.S. 108 - James Shewan & Sons, Inc. v. United States · 1924Most cited · 86 citing opinions
The mere laying up of a vessel engaged in the latter service would not change its character, unless the government did something affirmative to make it a public vessel. . . . The words of the proviso may reasonably and more liberally be interpreted as a limitation that the vessel is a merchant vessel and shall not have lost its character as such.