How To Use Seaman In A Sentence

We kept Mnemosyne for over two months, and never once did she misconduct herself or behave in an unseamanlike manner. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, December 26, 1917
And then a high order of seamanship is required on our rounds. DOUBTFUL MOTIVES
The good seaman is known in bad weather.
Having done with him I took boat again (being mightily struck with a woman in a hat, a seaman's mother, -- [Mother or mauther, a wench.] -- that stood on the key) and home, where at the office all the morning with Sir W. Coventry and some others of our board hiring of fireships, and Sir W. Coventry begins to see my pains again, which I do begin to take, and I am proud of it, and I hope shall continue it. Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1666 N.S.
a final leave of great Circe; who by her art calmed the heavens, and gave them smooth seas, and a right forewind (the seaman's friend) to bear them on their way to Ithaca. The Adventures of Ulysses

Harry has kicked around all over the world as a merchant seaman.
But it is hard to say, because although under age, he enlisted as an Ordinary Seaman on the outbreak of World War II, later going to the Fleet Air Arm as a telegraphist air gunner, earned a commission, and served overseas - at eighteen years of age probably the youngest sublieutenant in the RCNVR. Looking for Trouble
With a curt nod the seaman turned away and hopped out of the boat.
For there to be some purpose to being out on the ocean, well, somehow it feels more seamanlike and very fitting.
They lodged us at the Seaman's Rest, took our painted rags away and clothed us in blue "civvie" suits which seemed to us the height of sinful luxury. The Escape of a Princess Pat Being the full account of the capture and fifteen months' imprisonment of Corporal Edwards, of the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, and his final escape from Germany into Holland
Marriage to a merchant seaman in 2004 put her on course for work by the coast. Times, Sunday Times
It was during Frederik's tutorial on seamanship that Claire delivered the surprising news.
The ships then maintain parallel courses while the fuel is pumped - an operation which requires a high degree of seamanship.
The Yorkshire man was a former merchant navy seaman.
His father was a merchant seaman and killed during the Great War. STUART: A Life Backwards
Asked by the seaman's hometown to design a memorial, Schutte prepared a number of sketches and maquettes, some fully sculptural.
He had sold ladies 'underwear, refrigerators, vacuum cleaners and encyclopedias door to door; he had been a short order cook, elevator operator, puddler in a steel mill, seaman, carnival shill, bulldozer operator, printer's devil and legman for a radio station. Arcana Magi - c.1: Oryn Zentharis, Seeker of the Truth
There followed a short spell as a merchant seaman. Times, Sunday Times
Emil is a man grown and an able seaman; the boy is neither. Chris Farrington, Able Seaman
Wherever possible, he writes with a seaman's lingo of seaways, gunwales, swells and whitecaps.
What with David Seaman looking a hugely dominating presence at the back, this is looking like a team without a weak link.
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.
It was said that an ordinary seaman on the Admiral's flagship publicly disagreed with this conclusion and was promptly hanged from the yardarm for his insubordination.
The man was several inches taller than Russell, with the typical broad shoulders and rangy build of a professional seaman.
He failed to explain, for instance, how Obama, whose seagoing was limited to bodysurfing, managed to mimic at least thirty nautical metaphors—some very sophisticated—used by the former merchant seaman Ayers. Deconstructing Obama
Followed by a crime caper following the story of a seaman lured into a robbery in the City. Times, Sunday Times
This is poor seamanship, as a rock awash off Jones Point is not visible.
A seaman from the yacht said that on 13 December, he had been removed from the vessel by "two armed men" and brought to a larger group of "30 armed men," who questioned him about the numbers of the arresting party and threatened to "make a Sacrifice of him" if he did not answer truly. Gutenber-e Help Page
There followed a short spell as a merchant seaman. Times, Sunday Times
They had been trained in physical fitness and swimming, self-defense and small-arms shooting, first aid and seamanship, firefighting and the proper way to pack a seabag. Come Again No More
The European seaman is prudent when adventuring out to sea.
Rittichier was awarded the Air Medal for his role as the Copilot of a helicopter that flew 150 miles from Detroit, in blinding snow and ice conditions, to rescue eight seaman from the grounded West German motor vessel NORDMEER just minutes before it broke up. Rittichier, Jack C.
Wherever possible, he writes with a seaman's lingo of seaways, gunwales, swells and whitecaps.
An optional gunter sloop rig makes for a very seamanlike rig, and one ideal for young people to learn to sail with.
At first I was sanguine enough to hope that, seeing how we slipped away from her, the lateener would 'bout ship, and return to her moorings; but nothing of the kind: she held on like grim death, her skipper, no doubt, being seaman enough to read in the increasingly-threatening aspect of the heavens a promise that his turn should come by-and-by. Under the Meteor Flag Log of a Midshipman during the French Revolutionary War
I'm willing to bet I'll have a need to learn better seamanship, as I know he'll want me to accompany him next time he heads for the southern continent.
Fierce fighting ensued and the boarding party managed to rescue the British merchant seaman held on the ship.
Issue: Whether a person engaged in a maritime trade, who is not a seaman or a longshore worker, is a "seafarer" under SCOTUSblog
In appointing Captain Bligh to rule the colony, the English Government spoiled an excellent seaman to make a very inefficient Governor.
His letters to Mr. Astor, wherein he pours forth the bitterness of his soul, and his seamanlike impatience of what he considers the "lubberly" character and conduct of those around him, are before us, and are amusingly characteristic. Astoria, or Anecdotes of an Enterprise Beyond the Rocky Mountains
My father was indeed the smartest and best seaman in the ship; he could do his work from stem to stern -- mouse a stay, pudding an anchor, and pass a gammoning, as well as he could work a Turk's head, cover a manrope, or point a lashing for the cabin table. Poor Jack
Still, Walker wondered why a boy with so little training in seamanship had stolen away to sea.
His lack of experience and seamanship, coupled with that outlandish ego, made him a terrible leader.
Pepys relates how he met a seaman returning from fighting the Dutch with his eye-socket "stopped with oakum," and as late at least as the Battle of Trafalgar it was customary, in amputations, to treat the bleeding stump with boiling pitch as a cauterant. The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore
The journey round Cape Horn demanded a high degree of seamanship.
The good seaman is known is bad weather.
The former Leading Seaman Signalman and the Petty Officer Quartermaster proudly broke the pennant which for the life of the ship will fly at her masthead.
His incompetence, both in terms of seamanship and leadership, led to the grounding of the Medusa and encouraged the panic that swept those on board.
Easily the most experienced of England's current players, the Yorkshire-born Seaman is 38 years old and was winning his 73rd cap yesterday.
The hurried yells of the seaman brought Blaine's head up, and induced his head to lazily drift upwards, towards a large raft that had been shucked out to the bow.
But the bowman was a muscular seaman of fifty, and he won the victory over the billows, and hauled the man into the cutter. Across India Or, Live Boys in the Far East
Basseterre, and another French seaman, who was with him in the crossjack yard, having come down from aloft to our assistance. The Ghost Ship A Mystery of the Sea
Meale, who began working life as a merchant seaman and was later an Aycliffe councillor, is unamused.
Captain Rosser several times countermanded orders given by his chief officer -- an experienced seaman -- and bullied and "jawed" his crew in the most pompous and irritating manner, and finally when we succeeded in getting the vessel off the reef with the loss of her false keel and rudder, and were towing her into smooth water inside the reef, he came for'ard, and abruptly desired our chief mate to cease towing, as he meant to anchor. "Pig-Headed" Sailor Men From "The Strange Adventure Of James Shervinton and Other Stories" - 1902
The seaman who was addressed by this dire appellation arose slowly from the place where he was stationed as cockswain of the boat, and seemed to ascend high in air by the gradual evolution of numberless folds in his body. Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers
In this case it was the seaman responsible for opening the tampion who had forgotten to do his job.
The life of a merchant seaman is a lonely one, however, and Broadfoot returned to Vancouver where he took a job selling clothes with his father's wholesale clothing company and later with retail stores. Dave Broadfoot's Canada
The answer may well be found in a 1994 essay by Ayers, whose title befits a former merchant seaman: “Navigating a restless sea: The continuing struggle to achieve a decent education for African American youngsters in Chicago.” Deconstructing Obama
The suit demanded that Seaman surrender the rights to 374 photos he took of the Lennon family and pay unspecified damages.
Rob Rainbow 45/48, off-rifle 93, handicap 6, total 99; Arthur Seaman 30/38, o/r 68, hcp 25, total 93; Narromine News - Front Page
My dad was a merchant seaman. Times, Sunday Times
The chief officer who had the watch had doubled up on the lookouts and had his best GP1 seaman on the radarscope. LET NOT THE DEEP
Daniel Defoe was knowledgeable and proficient in seamanship, he understood the workings of a ship and the skills required for its operation.
The good seaman is known is bad weather.
His father was a merchant seaman and his mother a cleaner. Times, Sunday Times
Seaman badly bruised a hip and came off early in the second half last weekend but has received extensive treatment.
It was three in the morning when his unseamanlike conduct precipitated the catastrophe. THE "FRANCIS SPAIGHT"
Possessing an unslakable thirst for glory, a genius for seamanship, a combative nature, and a Gatsby-like desire to be recognized as a gentleman, Jones offered his services to the cause of American independence.
Furthermore, owing to the possession of property beyond the limits of Attica,50 and the exercise of magistracies which take them into regions beyond the frontier, they and their attendants have insensibly acquired the art of navigation. 51 A man who is perpetually voyaging is forced to handle the oar, he and his domestics alike, and to learn the terms familiar in seamanship. The Polity of the Athenians and the Lacedaemonians
He was no seaman, yet those vessels looked too flimsy to his landsman's eye.
Mark Terrill shipped out of San Francisco as a merchant seaman to the Far East and beyond, studied and spent time with Paul Bowles in Tangier, Morocco, and has lived in Europe since 1984, presently on the grounds of a former shipyard near Hamburg, Germany, with his wife and seven cats. Mark terrill | ways in, ways out « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground
He had been over a year at sea before he essayed this able seaman's task, but he did it, and he did it with pride. A CLASSIC OF THE SEA
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.
A seaman at my elbow screamed and stood up, tearing at a sumpitan dart in his arm; as I dived for the cover of the rail another stood quivering in a cable a foot from my face; Brooke leaned over, grinning, snapped it off, tossed it away, and then did an unbelievable thing. Flashman's Lady
Followed by a crime caper following the story of a seaman lured into a robbery in the City. Times, Sunday Times
A few days before, a tempest-struck vessel had appeared off the town: the hull was parched-looking and cracked, the sails rent, and bent in a careless, unseamanlike manner, the shrouds tangled and broken. The Last Man
As a volunteer sailor aboard a museum-quality replica of the Endeavour, I lived and worked like an eighteenth-century seaman: sleeping in a narrow hammock in the ship's hold alongside forty others, climbing the 127-foot main mast to furl sails in rolling seas, manning the helm in a hard blow. An Interview with Tony Horowitz, author of Blue Latitudes
But it sounds the ideal position for able seaman Prescott. The Sun
The journey round Cape Horn demanded a high degree of seamanship.
He chests the ball back into the path of Seaman, the ball is blocked out to the Everton winger, who shifts the ball to the left and welts it in.
In his early days Ernie, who was born in England, became a young seaman and travelled to many exotic parts of the world as a deckhand on freighters.
At the moment, as the sun westered behind ribbons of high, reddening cloud, Seaman Mabs was up in the rigging singing the sails up. In Gordath Wood: Writer Patrice Sarath » Housekeeping, or buh-bye Minesweeper
As the badly injured seaman struggled to stay afloat in the freezing water - he was not wearing a lifejacket - crewmen from his ship threw lifebuoys.
Such an experienced seaman, still physically strong and able.
A good seaman's knife carried at the belt would complete the armament. DOUBTFUL MOTIVES
He failed to explain, for instance, how Obama, whose seagoing was limited to bodysurfing, managed to mimic at least thirty nautical metaphors—some very sophisticated—used by the former merchant seaman Ayers. Deconstructing Obama
This time it's "Brothel Justice," a criminous SF tale by Sandra Seamans. Archive 2009-01-18
The log lists a steady trickle of desertions thereafter, including the name of the hero of the battle off Flamborough Head, William Hamilton, the brave seaman who climbed out on the mainyard and dropped the grenade through the hatchway on the Serapis. John Paul Jones
Ronaldinho promptly flighted the ball over Seaman and into the far corner of the net after spotting the England shotstopper had left his line.
All Sailors will be given a clear career roadmap, outlining how they progress from seaman to master chief, or from ensign to admiral.
Enquiries aboard the Dutch East Indiaman had revealed that Power had arrived alone in the Alexander jollyboat and begged for work as a seaman on the voyage to Holland. Morgan’s Run
I thought you knew all there was to know about seamanship already? ‘she smiled.’
But the former merchant seaman is not your average bum.
Seaman says before long he started breaking out in blistery red hives on his hands and feet. Rocky Kistner: As Dolphins Die, Gulf Residents Ask What About Us?
The good seaman is known is bad weather.
The confidence and burly purposefulness behind a 25-yarder that beat David Seaman and inflicted defeat on a resilient Arsenal were uncanny in a 16-year-old Everton substitute. Guardian writers choose their favourite Premier League goal
I forbear to dwell upon this exhibition of human weakness, for almost any one in Jason's shoes would have been equally regardless of the regulations, and in consequence proportionally unseamanlike. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 29, August, 1873
The seaman is lost but a passenger named Dorety upbraids Cullen and threatens to swear out a warrant for the captain's arrest in San Francisco and charge Cullen with murder. “Day had broken cold and gray, exceedingly cold and gray, . . . .”
That's what made us fetch to leeward," the captain interrupted, desiring to vindicate his seamanship. THE SEED OF McCOY
Military drill and discipline, as well as seamanship are still part of the book.
He was recalled for duty in 1939, being demobbed in 1945 as an able seaman.
The leading seaman in each mess was called ‘the caterer’ and he chose ‘the cook-of-the-day’, a job that went by rotation.
Other state-supported institutions provide advanced training in nursing, engineering, commerce, and seamanship.
The town council has in turn appealed to the seamanship of the Wootton Bassett Sea Cadets who have agreed to launch one of their boats to row the raiding party across.
civilities" at Stromness, but also because "he was a seaman, and had always borne a good character. The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 5 Poetry
Jean-Claude, our Breton steward, is a former submariner, merchant seaman and hotelier, and his charming character - occasionally lapsing into French as he discusses the menu - certainly helps on that score.
State; but I advisedly assert that such colonial premium would not rear one disposable seaman for our naval service, and that even the colonial fishermen would derive no commensurate advantage, such is the impoverishing effect of the inveterate system of truck-dealing that boat fishermen, even from the harbour of the capital of Newfoundland, are chiefly paid by daily wages; the advantages derived from the employment of two half-idle fishermen being greater to the truckmaster, in the absence of an available market, than the like amount of fish caught by one customer. The Life of Thomas, Lord Cochrane, Tenth Earl of Dundonald, Vol. II
A Seaman was rated ‘Able’ in wind-powered navies when he was able to perform the Seaman's main duties: reef, steer, and hand - the latter meaning to furl the sails to the yard.
Some discovered OK through direct contact with the United States, as when a seaman laying a transatlantic cable in 1869 reported from his ship, “Tout est O.K. à bord” or “All is O.K. on board,” the first attested use of O.K. in French. The English Is Coming!
They came swarming downstream, transports filled with palace servants and slaves and all their accoutrements and paraphernalia, barges laden with oxen and goats and chickens for the kitchens, gilded and gaily painted vessels bearing cargoes of palace furniture and treasure, of nobles and lesser creatures, all uncomfortably jumbled together in a most unseamanlike fashion. River God
We can not express too highly our admiration of those seaman like qualities which have under Providence brought us thus far in safety on our journey which promises now a happy and speedy termination.
Details range from swimming instruction for boy seaman recruits at HMS Ganges to how Naval vessels were coaled.
The seaman had been knocked out cold, helped considerably by the cider no doubt.
David Seaman was back in the Arsenal goal after breaking a knuckle.
` All fair an 'aboveboard' should be the sailing orders of every man in such matters, especially of every seaman. Blown to Bits The Lonely Man of Rakata, the Malay Archipelago
In all his readings of seamanship and knots he had never found himself moved to tears, unless from boredom.
The Port Service's crane toppled as the Able Seaman was lifting a steel workbench from the tray of a semi-trailer on to a pontoon being used for maintenance work on the sail training ship Young Endeavour.
'All fair an' aboveboard 'should be the sailing orders of every man in such matters, especially of every seaman. Blown to Bits or, The Lonely Man of Rakata
As the badly injured seaman struggled to stay afloat in the freezing water - he was not wearing a lifejacket - crewmen from his ship threw lifebuoys.
Did I venture to run the wildest rapids of the creek in the clumsy box which I called my canoe, she trusted her newest frock and ribbons to my seamanship. David Malcolm
As an ‘old seaman’ I was made skipper and learned to sail without them knowing it was my first flight experience in a sailboat.
I remembered Wada's reports on this unseamanlike intimacy of the second mate with the gangsters, and tried to make out the nature of the conversation. CHAPTER XXII
The good seaman is known in bad weather.
All that he could see of the other was the back of a figure of more than usual height, in seaman's breeches and short coat, and a sailor's peaked cap snugly set on thick black hair. Spice and the Devil's Cave
The fire which ironically had the purpose of killing Ralph and the island, saved them as a seaman spotted the smoke.
Chinese steward deplore as unseamanlike and perilous. CHAPTER XXXIX
The 37-year-old merchant seaman killed Joyce after a night out ended in drunken violence.
One aspect of Iceland's volcanoes of particular interest to geoscientists is that within the magmas being extruded there are small amounts of lightweight, light-colored volcanic materials known as felsic rock, which "has no reason whatsoever for being there - it's the kind of stuff found in continental crust, not ocean crust," Seaman says. Newswise: Latest News
A seaman in the US Navy in World War II ran barefoot across the red-hot deck of a burning ship to save a fellow sailor's life.
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
He had been a merchant seaman man and boy, covering some fifty years and he was so accustomed to shouting just to be heard that he couldn't stop doing it now that he'd retired.
She peered over at Arthur, agonisedly Nothing Anna sipped on her drink, `His father was a seaman. BEHINDLINGS
He was clad in what, though it was not distinctly a seaman's habit, yet suggested the ways of the sea, and there was a kind of foppishness about his rig which set me wondering, for I was used to a slovenly squalor or a slovenly bravery in the sailors I knew most of. Marjorie
a common seaman on a coaler sailing between Newcastle and London. Vikings of the Pacific The Adventures of the Explorers who Came from the West, Eastward
Five minutes later Owen beat Dixon to a long through ball and side footed the ball past Seaman for a late, late winner.
A high-pitched creak sounded, and I craned my neck as far as I could to see what this seaman looked like.
Sindbad the Seaman bespake them and related to them the narrative of The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
Furthermore, this glimpse of history is not a familiar one to any but a most dedicated student of history or seamanship.
A Petty Officer, with an expression emotionless as that of a traveller in a railway tunnel, sat by the dial manipulating a brass wheel; a few feet away sat a Leading Seaman similarly employed. The Long Trick
We were, however, consoled by reflecting, that every thing which zeal, fortitude, and seamanship, could produce, was concentred in her commander. The Settlement at Port Jackson
Was he a merchant seaman too?
Such as if a seaman in injured aboard a United States (and some US contracted) vessels the United States is responsible for all claims (maintenance and cure, seaworthiness, negligence, etc.) from that injury regardless of whether the vessel is operated by a private contractor or charterer. The Volokh Conspiracy » An Act for the Relief of Sick and Disabled Seamen
Seaman badly bruised a hip and came off early in the second half last weekend but has received extensive treatment.
Other jobs at the bottom of the study: dairy farmer, taxi driver, seaman, emergency medical technician and roofer .
Did the master's mate further depute the job to a young seaman whom he knew to be literate?
I signed on as able seaman -- _able_ seaman 'cause I was a fishing chap an 'had me Royal Naval Reserve ticket -- aboard the A Poor Man's House
The sinking may have been a result of overloading, poor seamanship or both.
The Greek seaman went to the hospital five times.
When he earned his law degree in 1933, he had already worked as a merchant seaman.
Even so, Nichols, watching from the Caledonia's quarterdeck, was almost mesmerized by the lifeboat coxswain 's seamanship. LET NOT THE DEEP
I saw that under the mask of these half humorous innuendoes, this old seaman, as an insulated Quakerish Nantucketer, was full of his insular prejudices, and rather distrustful of all aliens, unless they hailed from Cape Cod or the Vineyard. Moby Dick; or the Whale
Doug Roseaman of Wiltshire Heritage Museum is hoping to organise a visual arts festival in September when artists will exhibit in venues not usually connected with artistic endeavour.
You'll either be a cap'n's servant or ‘prenticed to one of the craftsmen, but likely not an able seaman just yet.’
Third -- In spite of their attempts to put the blame on Great Britain, it will tax the ingenuity even of the Germans to explain away the fact that it was a German torpedo, fired by a German seaman from a German submarine, that sank the vessel and caused over 1,000 deaths. New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 3, June, 1915 April-September, 1915
Henceforth he would have to rely on his seamanship to navigate.
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.
His father, a merchant seaman, had boxed in the navy while his mother swam competitively. Times, Sunday Times
[3595] An expert seaman is tried in a tempest, a runner in a race, a captain in a battle, a valiant man in adversity, a Christian in tentation and misery. Anatomy of Melancholy
In 1838, while a ship caulker's apprentice, Douglass acquired free seaman papers and escaped to New York City.
Wherever possible, he writes with a seaman's lingo of seaways, gunwales, swells and whitecaps.
The story or a part of it is told by a fellow-seaman of Columbus, who had turned "eremite" in his old age, and though the narrative itself is in heroic verse, the prologue and epilogue, as they may be termed, are in The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 3
I am a retired seaman and spent many a year sailing the world as a ship's boatswain.
A tall figure in seaman's coat was pausing, motionless, in the act of stepping into the court. Spice and the Devil's Cave
In fifty-odd years as a deckhand, stock tender, able seaman, and now captain, I became increasingly alarmed by the growth in plastic debris I was seeing.
We are only at the beginning of the voyage, and have to learn an entirely new system of seamanship.
He joined the Royal Navy during World War II at the age of nineteen and as an ordinary seaman in HMS Belfast served on Russian convoy duty. Do We Need Diplomacy?
I had not thought to find the faculties of Salamon Sweers so quickly benumbed by what was indeed a wild and dangerous confrontment, yet not so formidable and hopeless as to weaken the nerves of a seaman. The Honour of the Flag
I'm not much good for anything else,’ he added ruefully, hoping that an admission of his poor seamanship would mollify the other boy.
On the back of the cave was an upturned seaman's chest that spilled crumbly garments of silk and lace, ivory and gold ornaments, and heaps of gold and silver coins and fine jewellery of old.
She has been maintained and equipped in a very seamanlike fashion and should bring her new owner many years of boating, and fishing, pleasure.
The marooned seaman saves his sanity by cutting notches in a stick, the solitary prisoner by friendship with a mouse; and when life is reduced to the last exiguity of narrowness, the interests of life will be narrow too. The Quest of the Simple Life
Seaman has said the county might have that amount in unspent funds to help cover the shortfall. Pr. George's council awaits data to weigh pay raises for county employees
Seaman officer and pilot recruiting will be next, with new advertisements being filmed now.
Every clodhopper an 'cow-walloper these days is an able seaman. CHAPTER II
No one saw the slightly built seaman come on deck and begin to climb the shrouds of the main mast.
an able seaman
The good seaman is known in bad weather.
Even so, Nichols, watching from the Caledonia's quarterdeck, was almost mesmerized by the lifeboat coxswain's seamanship. LET NOT THE DEEP
On board were up to 130 cadets getting a general education as well as learning seamanship from the 20 staff.
The seaman is not guaranteed any particular benefit in return for his payment of the tax. The Volokh Conspiracy » Was the Individual Mandate a “Republican Idea”?
On his sleeve the blackening gold braid ran in the undulating rings of a lieutenant in the R.N.V.R. In his hand he carried a half-empty seaman's kitbag with some articles in it. In Spite of Their Declaration of Bombs
I have trained 8 Ordinary Seaman on how to properly tend my lines when I am aloft and have trained them how to safely rig the gantlines.
There didn't seem to be much to peer at -- a tiny pinpoint of light shining through the glass top of the plot and a squared sheet of chart paper marked by a most unseamanlike series of wavering black lines traced out by a man with a pencil following the track of the tiny moving light. Ice Station Zebra
Followed by a crime caper following the story of a seaman lured into a robbery in the City. Times, Sunday Times
There are plenty of hands-on activities, covering all aspects of seamanship, including navigation, weather forecasting and ship-handling.
Five minutes later Owen beat Dixon to a long through ball and side footed the ball past Seaman for a late, late winner.
KIRO-TV reports Mark Seamands branded his 13 - and 15-year-old sons and 18-year-old daughter with the letters "SK" - for "Seamands 'Kids. The News Tribune Blogs
Getting a good start was imperative to finish in the top 10 and this meant some cunning seamanship around the start boat to ensure a clean start.
The good seaman is known in bad weather.
A collision was caused by a "blunder in seamanship of ... a somewhat serious and startling character" by an uncertificated second mate.
He transferred shortly afterwards to the Dragon as an able seaman, but in 1761 he joined the Arrogant as a midshipman.
The seaman's rendering of the word "stultified" into Eskimo was curious, and cannot easily be explained, but it was well understood by Angut, and apparently by Kannoa, for another chuckle came just then from the culinary department. Red Rooney The Last of the Crew
He's one of the old type -- a seaman first of all -- and what we call bluff, and you call bounce, has only one effect upon men of his kind. Masters of the Wheat-Lands
A seaman's curse light on the folly that exposes planks and lives to such navigation; and all to burn some old timberman, or catch a Norway trader asleep! give way, men, give way! The Pilot
Cousteau, barely in his twenties, was a happy-go-lucky youngster, always eager and willing and a more than competent seaman.
He'd had a long experience as a seaman initially from 1746 when he was still a very young fellow he'd worked in colliers which are rather simple ships that we used along the east coast of England to transport coal from one port to another.
When developer Yoot Saito announced he would be working on a similar project for the iPhone called Gabo, the hearts of Seaman fans were aflutter with anticipation. MacApper
There followed a short spell as a merchant seaman. Times, Sunday Times
a seaman and boatheader as ever trod a whaleship's deck. John Frewen, South Sea Whaler 1904
Further south, the sight of snow had four junior Royal Navy ratings jumping for joy, because WTR Nekisha Seaman and her friends have never seen the white stuff before.

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