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Text=Displacement: 3,400-6,500 GRT|Length: 100-130 m|Beam: 16-20 m|Draft: 6-7.7 m|Mast: 22.5 m|Speed: 10-14 knots|Main Armament:Varies||Summary: Medium Merchants ranged from 3,400-6,500 tons (GRT). Cargo capacity was between 200,000 and 500,000 cubic feet. Older ships were powered by steam turbines or reciprocating steam engines, with no LP exhaust system. Fuel was typically solid or crushed coal, although a minority were converted to burn oil. They were rarely mass produced but were made to order in small classes of 5-10 ships. They served hundreds of different shipping companies between 1900 and 1945. During the war, neutral vessels remained unarmed. Merchants owned by belligerent nations received increasingly heavy armament as the war progressed. 
