Then again, it could simply be a commercial ship answering a distress call.

As a commercial ship, she was to deliver general merchandise.

Today, for the first time in our history, the United States is not building a single commercial ship.

There was no chance of Luon being able to get on any commercial ship just now.

He found that they were in use by a commercial ship.

This is evidence for a nice hybrid between commercial and military ships.

If all goes according to plan, the first commercial ship should be ready for business early next year.

"She's still faster than any commercial ship built before or since."

It wasn't the time for a commercial ship to be arriving.

The concepts he developed for the mass production of commercial and military ships remain in use today.