How To Use Boatswain In A Sentence
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Silent Pete, the boatswain, as I later found out, tossed me a mop.
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Then the lanky, bearded boatswain would take the helm while the captain conned the ship from one bridge wing or the other, with the chief engineer at his elbow
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I thought a moment, and then I called the boatswain's mate to pipe _all hands to bathe_.
Peter Simple
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Some say they are old mates or boatswains watching to see that your job is done in a proper ship-shape way.
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During this time one of the wheelsmen got aft, securing a few pieces of bread, and came forward again with the mate and boatswain.
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I called the boatswain's mate to _pipe all hands to bathe_.
Peter Simple; and, The Three Cutters, Vol. 1-2
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Take for instance, the boatswain's mate who needs to put that new coat of paint on the bulkhead.
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The boatswain tells them that the ship is in fine condition.
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Traditionally, mastheads and yardarms of RN ships were decorated with bunches of greenery, a task carried out by the boatswain's party in the dark hours of the night on December 24.
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The boatswain and several seamen were killed by the Haytian fire.
A Soldier's Life Being the Personal Reminiscences of Edwin G. Rundle
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Inside the forecastle was the galley (or ship's kitchen) and quarters for such people as the boatswain, the carpenter, the cook and the master-archer.
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
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I was "conning" the schooner when this insane scheme was broached, and fearing that the captain might adopt it, I leaped on the hatch, after calling the boatswain to my place, and assured the crew that if they severed the sail, we would lose command of the vessel, so that with impaired headway, the next wave that struck her would show her keel to the skies and her dock to the fishes.
Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver
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It was in vain for this unwieldy wretch to allege his utter incapacity; the boatswain's driver was commanded to whip him up with the cat-and-nine-tails; the smart of this application made him exert himself so much, that he actually arrived at the puttock shrouds; but when the enormous weight of his body had nothing else to support than his weakened arms, either out of spite or necessity, he quitted his hold, and plunged into the sea, where he must have been drowned, had not a sailor, who was in a boat alongside, saved his life, by keeping him afloat till he was hoisted on board by a tackle.
The Adventures of Roderick Random
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I am a retired seaman and spent many a year sailing the world as a ship's boatswain.
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Won't you come down here, Mr.. Waters?" called the boatswain, looking up so suddenly that Mr. Travers's head bumped painfully against the side of the window.
Captains All and Others
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Typically, it's a boatswain's mate or a quartermaster running the ship, while an engineer and one or two seaman line handlers assist in the shipboard operations.
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They live happily for some years, until Enoch is compelled through temporary adversity to go as boatswain in a merchantman.
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Then the lanky, bearded boatswain would take the helm while the captain conned the ship from one bridge wing or the other, with the chief engineer at his elbow
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I was "conning" the schooner when this insane scheme was broached, and fearing that the captain might adopt it, I leaped on the hatch, after calling the boatswain to my place, and assured the crew that if they severed the sail, we would lose command of the vessel, so that with impaired headway, the next wave that struck her would show her keel to the skies and her dock to the fishes.
Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver
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The next day, we all commenced in earnest our studies in navigation and seamanship, the naval instructor with his assistants working us up in our mathematics and imparting to us the elements of plane and spherical trigonometry; while the boatswain and his mates gave us practical lessons in the setting up of rigging and making of knots, so that there should be no chance of our mistaking a "sheepshank" for a "cat's paw," or a "Flemish eye" for a "grommet!
Crown and Anchor Under the Pen'ant
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This Praise, which would be unmeaning Flattery if inscribed over human ashes, is but a just tribute to the Memory of Boatswain, a Dog.
We’re going to meet Charles « Bodhicitta
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These were Lt. Jim Galvin and a boatswain's mate named Stevens.
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The boatswain and carpenter, assisted by the boys, rigged a jury-mast out of the foremast of the galiot, which had been saved for the purpose.
Dikes and Ditches Young America in Holland and Belguim
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We saw several tropical birds, which the sailors call boatswains, in consequence of their having one long feather for a tail, which they term a marlin-spike — an iron instrument sharp at one end and knobbed at the other, used in splicing ropes, etc.
A Sailor of King George
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Aviation boatswain's mates wash down the flight deck aboard PCU Ronald Reagan following a test of damage control systems.
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Your captain said there were fifty men aboard, himself not included - his first mate, cook, navigator, purser, boatswain, carpenter, quartermaster, and forty-three sailors.
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Ah, it would make you feel a bit unked, my lad," said the boatswain,
Fitz the Filibuster
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What is this you have to complain of, Mr Trundle?" asked the first-lieutenant, as he stood at the capstern-head, with the enraged boatswain before him.
Salt Water The Sea Life and Adventures of Neil D'Arcy the Midshipman
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The boatswain and master of the ship appear to say that it has been magically repaired and that the crew is safe.
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The boatswain was a noisy, surly fellow, and on several occasions the captain had words with him about his disrespectful behaviour.
The Pirates' Who's Who Giving Particulars Of The Lives and Deaths Of The Pirates And Buccaneers
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Engine room artificers, boatswains, tugboat crews and quartermasters in the harbour master section (navigation branch) of the Sri Lanka Port Authority began an overtime boycott on November 12.
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Traditionally, mastheads and yardarms of RN ships were decorated with bunches of greenery, a task carried out by the boatswain's party in the dark hours of the night on December 24.
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Some tutors attempt the _suaviter in modo_, my schoolmaster preferred the _fortiter in re_, and, as the boatswain said, by the "instigation" of a large knotted stick, he drove knowledge into our skulls as a caulker drives oakum into the seams of a ship.
Frank Mildmay The Naval Officer
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At 11 in the morning the boatswain's mate would pipe ‘Up spirits,’ to cue the petty officer of the day to climb to the quarterdeck, where an officer would give him the keys to the spirit room.
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Shannon, even though promised an ‘A’ school, has decided to remain in deck and become a boatswain's mate.
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He served in the merchant marines as a boatswain and a machinist's mate when ships were going to places of interest.
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He's a boatswain's mate by trade but said life on the LCAC's small deck beats the duties of bigger vessels.
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As the boatswain had said, she was about half a mile distant from us, and her mizenmast was over the side, still fast to the hull by the rigging, which had not been cut away.
Overdue The Story of a Missing Ship
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Accordingly, while Chips and Sails again undertook to climb the cliff and procure some bananas for breakfast, Cunningham and I, accompanied by the boatswain -- who seemed, after a good night's rest, to be little the worse for the happenings of the previous day -- agreed to wade off and board the wreck, with the view of securing such weapons and ammunition as were come-at-able, and had not been spoiled by sea water.
Turned Adrift
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Shrill trilling vocalizations are thought to be similar to the sound of a boatswain's pipe.
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At 11 in the morning the boatswain's mate would pipe ‘Up spirits,’ to cue the petty officer of the day to climb to the quarterdeck, where an officer would give him the keys to the spirit room.
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He was sparingly fed upon weevilled biscuit and vile messes of tallowy rice, and to drink he was given luke-warm water that was often stale, saving that sometimes when the spell of rowing was more than usually protracted the boatswains would thrust lumps of bread sodden in wine into the mouths of the toiling slaves to sustain them.
The Sea-Hawk
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Boatswain's Mate 1st Class Hans Jacobs led the deck and rigging crew, as they safely lifted the AAV from the ocean and onto the ship's fantail.
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_Fatima_, the first swab, as I told you, got an ugly scrape in the leg that prevented him from moving; so when the second lieutenant was put in charge of the dhow to take her up to Zanzibar, I was the only responsible man the captain could think of to send cruising with the pinnace, as the middy was a harum-scarum youngster, who hadn't got thought enough, and neither the boatswain nor Chips could be taken away from their duties without perhaps the ship suffering.
The Penang Pirate and, The Lost Pinnace
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The endemic Ascension frigatebird (Fregata aquila), which subsists on food stolen from other birds, lives on Boatswain Island exclusively now.
Ascension scrub and grasslands
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It seems likely that there was a minimum crew comprising master, mate, boatswain, at least two seamen and possibly one apprentice.
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Engine room artificers, boatswains, tugboat crews and quartermasters in the harbour master section (navigation branch) of the Sri Lanka Port Authority began an overtime boycott on November 12.
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The boatswain and master of the ship appear to say that it has been magically repaired and that the crew is safe.
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The boatswain's pipe is the 'modern day' descendant of the flutes used by the Ancient Greeks and Romans to convey orders to the oarsmen and galley slaves.
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Typically, it's a boatswain's mate or a quartermaster running the ship, while an engineer and one or two seaman line handlers assist in the shipboard operations.
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The boatswain, climbing up with marlinspikes and bunches of spunyarn rovings, or kneeling on the yard and ready to take a turn with the midship-stop, had acute and fleeting visions of his old woman and the youngsters in a moorland village.
The Nigger of the Narcissus
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This malconformation below did not, however, affect his strength -- it rather added to it; and there were but few men in the ship who would venture a wrestle with the boatswain, who was very appropriately distinguished by the cognomen of Jemmy Ducks.
Snarley-yow or The Dog Fiend
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If I don't loosen his hide my name arn't what it is," growled the old boatswain; and he moved on, going close by Sydney, who stood listening with heavily beating heart till Barney had gone right up to the back of the house.
Syd Belton The Boy who would not go to Sea
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William Howell, who had been a boatswain at Trafalgar and a sergeant at Waterloo, turns up in the journals years later, aged 55, on the Dryad, described as "very much dissipated and suffered much from stricture and perineal tumours".
Amputations, acid gargles and ammonia rubs: Royal Navy surgeons' 1793-1880 journals revealed
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Immediately after the first sea swept over our stern, I ordered the Boatswain to take sufficient men and shutters to close all windows in the after cabin.
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A mariner emerges from the hatchway and climbs the rigging, while below the boatswain and ship's master are thrown about on deck.
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Then the lanky, bearded boatswain would take the helm while the captain conned the ship from one bridge wing or the other, with the chief engineer at his elbow
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He called the boatswain and went to the store-room.
The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story
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Traditionally, mastheads and yardarms of RN ships were decorated with bunches of greenery, a task carried out by the boatswain's party in the dark hours of the night on December 24.
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Touchwood had scarcely extricated himself from this impediment, and again commenced his researches after the clergyman, when his course was once more interrupted by a sort of pressgang, headed by Sir Bingo Binks, who, in order to play his character of a drunken boatswain to the life, seemed certainly drunk enough, however little of a seaman.
Saint Ronan's Well
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I just waited till the ship got to Christiania; and then, when all the students were at dinner, I found the big boatswain sitting on a beam that runs out over the water -- I forget what they call the beam, but it's at the bow of the ship.
Up The Baltic Young America in Norway, Sweden, and Denmark
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The tropic-bird, often called the boatswain, or phaëton, also climbs to great heights, and is seldom found out of these latitudes.
White Shadows in the South Seas
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But he did not come: he was having a very serious talk with the Chinese admiral; at daybreak, however, the gig was reported in sight: Sharpe told one of the midshipmen to call the boatswain and man the side.
Great Sea Stories
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` ` Push off the bow there! '' called the boatswain at the wheel.
Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates : fiction, fact & fancy concerning the buccaneers & marooners of the Spanish Main
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A mariner emerges from the hatchway and climbs the rigging, while below the boatswain and ship's master are thrown about on deck.
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Some tutors attempt the _suaviter in modo_, my schoolmaster preferred the _fortiter in re_; and, as the boatswain said, by the "instigation" of a large knotted stick, he drove knowledge into our skulls as a caulker drives oakum into the seams of
Frank Mildmay Or, The Naval Officer
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The capstern went round with a merry tune -- the boatswain's whistle sounded shrilly along the decks with a magic effect -- the anchor was hove up -- the sails were let fall and but a few minutes had passed, after the captain gave the word of command, before the ship, under a wide spread of snowy canvas, was standing down the Solent towards the Needle passage.
My First Cruise and Other stories
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Perhaps the boatswain missed the turn-off for Bangkok from the Mekong?
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A boatswain's mate on a ship's forecastle might not be paying attention to the color of the anchor chain paying out of the locker, or turn the friction brake in the wrong direction, with disastrous results.
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At the time, he was a Boatswain 3rd Class assigned to a minesweeper called the Exultant.
Montauk Link to '92 Murder
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Typically, it's a boatswain's mate or a quartermaster running the ship, while an engineer and one or two seaman line handlers assist in the shipboard operations.
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Your captain said there were fifty men aboard, himself not included - his first mate, cook, navigator, purser, boatswain, carpenter, quartermaster, and forty-three sailors.
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And because our ships be freighted by the great, it shalbe very needful that you do appoynt certaine to see the romaging of the ships, and to giue the master or Boatswaine, or him that will take vpon him to romage, a good reward for his labour to see the goods well romaged.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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Having completed my inspection of the decks, and satisfied myself that everything was all right, I called the boatswain aft to take temporary charge, and then entered the drawing-room, intending to pass through it to the door of Mrs Vansittart's cabin, to make my report.
The First Mate The Story of a Strange Cruise
