Merchant and Boating Rank
Commodore is also a title held by the senior captain within a shipping company and by the senior officer of many yacht clubs and boating associations.
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Famous quotes containing the words merchant and/or rank:
“Bid her paint till day of doom,
To this favour she must come.
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The usurer exact by stealth,
The proud man beat it from his thought,
Yet to this shape all must be brought.”
—Francis Beaumont (1584-1616)
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