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These folks also learned fast from other cultures, as they were able seaman and traveled around the world, and would see many wonderful things and this knowledge would return to their own lands, where it quickly would spread like fire upon the land
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the lowly tasks of a seaman, yet he observed the work of those
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reduced to one seaman and one boy
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chief boatswain’s mate of the late Alabama, a good seaman, an experienced man-of-wars sailor, and one calculated to carry
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business from greenhand seaman to master of the ship and was
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About fifty years after this event, Joseph Francis, a seaman of
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He looked pained, but as a young seaman, he wasn’t about to deny his chums some sport
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Instead of hollering for help, the burly seaman had the grace to roll his eyes up into his head and collapse forward onto Longleaf, who groaned loudly at the immense weight
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legally hired on as an able-bodied seaman
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tion that he signed in front of me and witnessed by seaman
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A second later, a second seaman with petty officer’s insignia on the sleeve of his peacoat came aboard, looked at Colling and asked, “What the bloody ‘ell are you doing here, Yank?”
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Seaman recruit (SR): the lowest enlisted rating
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The station complement included BM3 Josh Christensen, BM3 Daniel Gallagher, BM3 Kyle Dupree, MK3 Les Swenson, Seaman (SN) Richard Chaney, SN Melissa Braun, and Chief Petty Officer (BMC) Michael Briner, Officer in Charge (OIC)
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An average day for a seaman or fireman is standing watch, homeland security, search and rescue, and training on all of the stations boats
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Better than Navy training, anyway, where there was never a free minute, where his name had become Seaman Dick-Arm or Arm-Dick, which he supposes is better than Seaman Pinky-Dick
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The captain should have been incensed at a lowly seaman giving him orders, but the cracks of dissent showed his command to be a delicate one, and he had to let it bend or risk shattering it completely
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����������� The commander from the Admiralty stopped his precision chronometer as the log thrown by a seaman in the water swept by
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The young seaman pointed by Nancy turned red as the other sailors and Prien exploded in laughter
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For an experienced seaman, in a seaworthy boat, the passage would be safe, but uncomfortable
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Seaman First Class Luis Alvarez then looked at his direct superior, Petty Officer Second Class John McBride
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The Scharnhorst was first detected by the cruiser HMS Belfast on which Able Seaman Thomas Brady was serving
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“And what about the young seaman here?” added Stanley pointing in Gallagher’s direction
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“Aye aye, chief” said the Ordinary Seaman
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A few minutes later the squad was marching back to the barracks, with Leading Seaman Chambers in
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Seaman Chambers is to issue the rifles, the lads are to make a circle around the Paymaster’s Office,
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Chief was shouting as the men passed their rifles up to the Leading Seaman who was also helping
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Seaman rearranged the sacks to hide the interior, should anyone open the door
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“Two sugars in mine!” said Able Seaman Tupp as though he was talking to the guard, which raised
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Leading Seaman Chambers stood ready to pull the cord
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to open the door and Able Seaman Robinson, the ex-train driver, was ready to hand out the rifles at
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Leading Seaman Chambers moved over to pick up the opening cord for the other door
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standing holding a smoking musket and the sailor who had been sent to the barn, Able Seaman
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Calling to Leading Seaman Chambers he said
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mounted the train with Able Seaman Moffat, who was taking his nursing duties very seriously
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Shouting orders as he ran, Jack told Able Seaman Robinson, who had proved to be reliable, to go to
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Seaman Chambers had returned safely in the cart with the boxes of forms, Jack mustered the squad
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sent Leading Seaman Chambers back on the wagon to the farm with AB Moffat in order to help Tupp
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‘’True paradise is awaiting you above and you can call me ‘Sergeant’, Leading Seaman
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He was obviously an expert seaman, and knew his way round the busy harbour like the back of his hand
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If she were to be sold to a seaman, she would have to live on the water for months at a time
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He’s a seaman
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You have often called yourself a seaman! You spent all of your life working on the sea and building your empire on the water
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To go to a historically important place in the heart of Europe, with an old University and endless museums and libraries, or off to a small fisherman’s village in Scotland to study the specific dialect and custo ms there, to be able to peer out to the sea with the eyes of an old seaman and imagine the swell of the sea as you hear the swell in his voice
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‘The husband was a merchant seaman
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But where was Able? The most able-bodied English seaman ever to have sailed the seven seas
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If Christian had been a better seaman, and a better human being: there would have been no mutiny in the first place
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What was he hung for? For accidentally killing a mutinous seaman by hitting him over the head with a bucket
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But where was Able? The most able-bodied English seaman ever to have been born
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Instead of Cain standing trial and finding excuses to get away with his crimes: it was Abel, the most able-bodied seaman in the English Navy who was forced to make excuses for losing his ship
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and his father before him had been seaman of one sort or another and the love of a fine
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At nineteen years of age, after a period of probation and training I had imposed upon myself as ordinary seaman on board a North Sea coaster, I had come up from Lowestoft--my first long railway journey in England--to "sign on" for an Antipodean voyage in a deep-water ship
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I was pursuing a clear aim, I was carrying out a deliberate plan of making out of myself, in the first place, a seaman worthy of the service, good enough to work by the side of the men with whom I was to live; and in the second place, I had to justify my existence to myself, to redeem a tacit moral pledge
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I mean that every kind and sort of human being classified as seaman, steward, fore-mast hand, fireman, lamp-trimmer, mate, master, engineer, and also all through the innumerable ratings of the Navy up to that of Admiral, has done well
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Speaking now as a purely civil seaman (or, perhaps, I ought to say civilian, because politeness is not what I have in my mind) I may say that I have never expected the Merchant Service to do otherwise than well during the war
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I remember also a couple of Finns, both carpenters, of course, and very good craftsmen; a Swede, the most scientific sailmaker I ever met; another Swede, a steward, who really might have been called a British seaman since he had sailed out of London for over thirty years, a rather superior person; one Italian, an everlastingly smiling but a pugnacious character; one Frenchman, a most excellent sailor, tireless and indomitable under very difficult circumstances; one Hollander, whose placid manner of looking at the ship going to pieces under our feet I shall never forget, and one young, colourless, muscularly very strong German, of no particular character
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It has been suggested to me that this sense of duty is not a patriotic sense or a religious sense, or even a social sense in a seaman
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It has been suggested also to me that the impalpable constraint is put upon the nature of a seaman by the Spirit of the Sea, which he serves with a dumb and dogged devotion
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All that a guileless or guileful seaman knows of it is its hostility, its exaction of toil as endless as its ever-renewed horizons
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I don't know what the seaman of the future will be like
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And that other sinking which I have related here and to the memory of which a seaman turns with relief and thankfulness has its moral too
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I, who have been seaman, mate and master for twenty years, holding my certificate under the Board of Trade, may safely say that none of us ever felt in danger of unfair treatment from a Court of Inquiry
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A charge of neglect and indifference in the matter of saving lives is the cruellest blow that can be aimed at the character of a seaman worthy of the name
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Yes; a man, a quartermaster, an able seaman that would know how to jump to an order and was not an excitable fool
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Him who is their partisan and cleverly aids them in their plot for getting the ship out of the captain's hands into their own whether by force or persuasion, they compliment with the name of sailor, pilot, able seaman, and abuse the other sort of man, whom they call a good-for-nothing; but that the true pilot must pay attention to the year and seasons and sky and stars and winds, and whatever else belongs to his art, if he intends to be really qualified for the command of a ship, and that he must and will be the steerer, whether other people like or not--the possibility of this union of authority with the steerer's art has never seriously entered into their thoughts or been made part of their calling
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A seaman couldn't be wrong on this topic, and I told the Canadian
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"Ah, what a splendid death for a seaman!" Captain Nemo then said
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"That's not fair," said the seaman who had saved Dantes; "for you know more than we do
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as he had been a hardy seaman; he had formed an acquaintance with all the smugglers on the Two months and a half elapsed in these trips, and Edmond had become as skilful a coaster coast, and learned all the Masonic signs by which these half pirates recognize each other
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Just as we were crowding each other to reach the platform, two more arms lashed the air, swooped on the seaman stationed in front of Captain Nemo, and carried the fellow away with irresistible violence
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An old seaman, bronzed by the tropical sun, advanced, twirling the remains of a tarpaulin between his hands
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" The noble boy in the ancestral boots was inconsistent, representing himself, as it were in one breath, as an able seaman, a strolling actor, a grave-digger, a clergyman, and a person of the utmost importance at a Court fencing-match, on the authority of whose practised eye and nice discrimination the finest strokes were judged
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—He's Irish, the seaman bold affirmed, staring still in much the same way and
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Denying himself this freak, as unworthy of his cloth, he met a drunken seaman, one of the ship's crew from the Spanish Main
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Now, if never before, it answered a good purpose, by enabling Hester and the seaman to speak together without risk of being overheard; and so changed was Hester Prynne's repute before the public, that the matron in town most eminent for rigid morality could not have held such intercourse with less result of scandal than herself
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“Thy mother is yonder woman with the scarlet letter,” said the seaman
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The first was built largely around a core of last year’s freshmen: Don Hume, the big powerful stroke; Gordy Adam at number seven; William Seaman at number six; and Johnny White at number four
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The seaman lurched across the room and took up the pen
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The next instant Holmes and the seaman were rolling on the ground together
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The hoarse voice of the seaman broke in on our conversation
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The amazing strength, the skill in the use of the harpoon, the rum and water, the seal-skin tobacco-pouch, with the coarse tobacco—all these pointed to a seaman, and one who had been a whaler
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How many landsmen are there who would drink rum when they could get these other spirits? Yes, I was certain it was a seaman
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If it were a seaman, it could only be a seaman who had been with him on the SEA UNICORN
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"'Hudson it is, sir,' said the seaman
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"'Thank you, sir,' said the seaman, touching his fore-lock
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What was the past of this Trevor, pugilist, traveler, and gold-digger, and how had he placed himself in the power of this acid-faced seaman? Why, too, should he faint at an allusion to the half-effaced initials upon his arm, and die of fright when he had a letter from Fordingham? Then I remembered that Fordingham was in Hampshire, and that this Mr
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Beddoes, whom the seaman had gone to visit and presumably to blackmail, had also been mentioned as living in Hampshire
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The letter, then, might either come from Hudson, the seaman, saying that he had betrayed the guilty secret which appeared to exist, or it might come from Beddoes, warning an old confederate that such a betrayal was imminent
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When we pulled him aboard the boat he proved to be a young seaman of the name of Hudson, who was so burned and exhausted that he could give us no account of what had happened until the following morning
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Imagine, then, my feelings when in the seaman who came to us I recognized instantly the man who had been picked off the wreck
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He was also a consummate seaman, and one of the finest warship commanders Ahbaht had ever seen, but Pymbyrtyn was even more interesting in many ways
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An ardent Reformist and a skilled seaman, he’d also become a fervent Charisian patriot who thoroughly deserved his powerful command
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The necessity of winding round his little finger, almost daily, the pompous and testy self-importance of the old seaman had grown irksome with use to Nostromo
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There was something in the genius of that Genoese seaman which dominated the destinies of great enterprises and of many people, the fortunes of Charles Gould, the fate of an admirable woman
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They’d been as wrong about that as he’d been, but how in Langhorne’s name could even the Charisian Navy have found no less than fifteen galleons—that was Mychysyn’s minimum estimate—and sent them fifteen hundred miles from Talisman Island so soon after the battle? And even if they’d had the ships, how could they have intercepted the prisoner convoy so perfectly, under cover of night when the escorts never even saw them coming? Lywys Gardynyr had been a seaman for his entire life, and he knew—knew—how impossible that was
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His own ordination as an under-priest of the Order of Chihiro had come about only because he was a skilled seaman who’d been tapped for command in the Navy of God, but before that, he’d captained Church couriers and transports for almost twenty years
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Now the seaman stood cradling the demijohn in his arms while several of his grinning crewmates rescued the cups
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The captain was full of chaff at Julia's endurance in the storm, offering to engage her as a seaman; years of sea-going had given him jokes for every occasion