Marine
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Marine or Marines may refer to:

• Marine (ocean), a general term for things relating to the sea or ocean
• Marine (military), a soldier in a force under the authority of a navy, or in several cases (e.g. USMC), a soldier belonging to a force which was formerly under the authority of a navy
  • The military rank of "Marine", being the entry level soldier in the Other Ranks of the Royal Marines
  • Royal Marines, a branch of the UK military
  • United States Marine Corps, a branch of the U.S. military
  • Netherlands Marine Corps, a branch of the Dutch military
• Marine engineering
• A term for a navy, uncommon in English
  • The British East India Company's Marine or Honourable East India Company's Marine, a colonial precursor of the Indian Navy that existed from 1612 to 1686
  • Bombay Marine, a colonial precursor of the Indian Navy that existed from 1686 to 1830 and from 1863 to 1877
  • Deutsche Marine, the German Navy
  • Her Majesty's Indian Marine, a colonial precursor of the Indian Navy that existed from 1877 to 1892
  • Koninklijke Marine, the Royal Dutch Navy
  • Marine nationale, the French Navy
  • Royal Indian Marine, a colonial precursor of the Indian Navy that existed from 1892 to 1934
• Merchant Marine, synonymous in (primarily) British usage with "Merchant Navy," a collective term for all of the merchant ships, shipping companies, and merchant mariners, usually of a particular country (see Ship transport)

Places

• Marine, Illinois, United States
• Marine City, Michigan, United States
• Marine on St. Croix, Minnesota, United States
• Marines, Val-d'Oise, France
• Marines, Valencia, Spain

Entertainment

• Marine (book), a book about the United States Marine Corps written by Tom Clancy in 1996
• The Marine, a film
• Marine FC, an English football team from Merseyside
• Space Marine, in science fiction, a soldier who serves aboard a spacecraft and/or who is trained to fight in space or in planetary attacks
• Marine the Raccoon, a character from the Sonic the Hedgehog series of video games

Other uses

• West Marine Ltd., part of the Peel Engineering Company, makers of fiberglass boats

See also

• Marina (disambiguation)
• Mariner (disambiguation)
• Portal:Nautical

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