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1. On behalf of all the passengers, I complimented the skipper on protecting the graceful lines of his yacht
2. And indeed bad as his clothes were and coarsely as he spoke, he seemed like a skipper accustomed to be obeyed
3. Just prior to the war, he had been skipper of the mail steamer,
4. Captain Barker was a kind and excellent skipper, and he liked the attitude and motivation that Jon
5. This first whaling voyage was the stepping stone for Jon to become a master mariner and illustrious skipper
6. A short time later, Jon did return to sea with Captain Barker as skipper on the same ship, Roman, departing New Bedford on November 2, 1844, but this time as a boatsteerer
7. skipper and was compassionate as well
8. Allen, skipper of the whaleship Onward, who had also arrived there with his wife to visit the island
9. skipper was a Yankee, but he was in business to make money,
10. The prisoners taken on board had been put in irons for the night and the skipper and
11. Since it was very cold outside on the deck of the Abigail, the nonchalant old skipper then invited the boarding officer inside to get something warm for his stomach while getting his papers in
12. Shenandoah and the skipper then prepared to meet with Captain Waddell and learn his fate
13. Upon boarding, the skipper took it very hard and protested loudly of being hunted
14. skipper continued to stand firm on deck along with his men and
15. When the skipper arrived on board, it was plain to see that he had been seeking help from
16. “The skipper is particular about that when in port
17. “Coming within scanning range of the point now, skipper,” Wethers announced
18. Our fifth was the skipper, Chad, whose lady I was
19. Urgently, cautiously, the skipper inserted a pair of pliers
20. Whatever opinions they may have expressed to our skipper we never knew
21. evening with the man I knew as Red Snapper, the skipper of the
22. "What happened to the stones?" asked a cool skipper
23. His wrinkled khaki pants and shirt in addition to his need of a shave did not mark this man as the skipper, but his grip rivaled the fighting claw of a Maine lobster
24. Captain Robert Durfey later reflected on his combat tour as skipper of the cutter Rush: “We got called on to do all manner of things
25. ” The skipper was a weather expert and later conceded he underestimated the severity of the storm
26. The Sykes skipper gathered some of his conclusions from radio conversations participated in and overheard between the Fitzgerald and other vessels on its final voyage (Bishop, pp
27. "Next time, Mister Lewis," advised the skipper, "don't screw around with other guys'
28. You’ll get a plane to Vancouver tomorrow morning,” called the skipper
29. long, and could find no sign of the hapless skipper of the
30. He knew that such an address would probably put the skipper off claiming any damages
31. Dredge a net full o' rocks and suddenly there's only one skipper
32. He was a genuine hero as the skipper of a PT boat in the Pacific in WWII who swam out to sea on his own to flag down help for his men stranded on a nearby island after they were run over by a Japanese destroyer
33. The boat’s skipper, a lieutenant-commander, showed up on the small bridge four minutes later, as the patrol vessel was about to cut the path of the four Chinese trawlers
34. Some LST’s were initially more fortunate; the E Boat skipper thought they were Destroyers and set his torpedoes to run too deep before realising they were shallow draft vessels
35. “It’s more like in that direction, Skipper
36. All the survivors readily accepted Harry Morgan as their new Skipper
37. “Fourteen hours, Skipper,” replied the First Officer
38. “We have Base One on the scope, Skipper," reported the First Officer
39. "What about the Woman, Skipper?" asked the First Officer
40. the owners, following a test case involving the Skipper of an American
41. The loss to one Faroese skipper was put at £400,000 when his boat was turned away from a Scottish port; however the fish processing plant in the town was left with nothing to process
42. the skipper recognised my predicament and came to my
43. waited for his wife and the skipper but there was no sign
44. board — only to find that the skipper was missing
45. We now faced the prospect of losing the skipper and his
46. supervise diving and skipper the boat
47. Oh gay voyage down the Wieker Bodden, over the little dancing waves, under the serene summer sky! Oh blessed change from the creaking of a carriage through dust to rippling silence and freshness! The Professor was in such spirits that he could hardly be kept from doing what he called manning the yards, and had to be fetched down when he began to clamber by the alarmed skipper
48. I had given the strictest private instructions; and dropping speechless into the dinghy, a palpitating mixture of heat, anxiety, and rapture, was rowed as fast as two strong men could row me to the brig and the waiting skipper
49. It was a beautiful day and we set off with the skipper at the helm and me in the stern pointing out passing pelicans and enormous blobby jellyfish to the littlies
50. Skipper was in a foul mood as usual, and after boorishly and audibly berating other sailors for their lack of consideration and skill on the water, he soon became bored, hot and hungry
1. at the rear while the woman's husband skippered the boat
2. "Why, I was first reserve for England against Wales, and I've skippered the 'Varsity all this year
1. The Master of the ship followed the Skippers gaze onto the Northwest horizon where storm clouds gathered, highlighted by the setting sun with tinges of orange and red under their belly
2. The Skippers of the ships all prayed silently for time
3. We’re sending a letter to all the skippers of the
4. She chose those skippers with knowledge of fishing, it is true, but she also selected those with a mind only for the money and the present
5. Leave all the stress to those unfortunate skippers who compete to shoulder all the responsibility the world has to offer
6. All the LST’S were brand new arrivals in the UK with brand new skippers, mainly ninety day wonders commanding brand new crews
7. The Skippers had met in the 'Prospectors Bar'
8. One of the Skippers had suggested a joint
9. The Skippers held a meeting and decided to re-enter the belt at the next
10. Skippers were, in fact, lost
11. The Skippers met together to discuss their situation
12. little fresh food left, one of the Skippers had purchased several tons of surplus
13. One of the Skippers was most puzzled by this event and went back to his
14. give their Crews the best chance, the Skippers and the First Officers made a
15. Skippers and their First Officers perished with their ships
16. The Skippers of all three vessels
17. skippers because of the way they kind of hop from rock to rock on the reef
18. The Imperial Charisian Navy’s standards of seamanship were the highest in the world, yet not even their skippers could have held such precise station under sail in such fitful wind conditions
19. You must know that in a settled and civilized ocean like our Atlantic, for example, some skippers think little of pumping their whole way across it; though of a still, sleepy night, should the officer of the deck happen to forget his duty in that respect, the probability would be that he and his shipmates would never again remember it, on account of all hands gently subsiding to the bottom