jackets

• The marines and blue-jackets were then landed, when they attacking the batteries, the enemy took to flight, pursued by Lieutenant Key, at the head of a light company of seamen, who carried a wood into which they had thrown themselves. —  How Britannia Came to Rule the Waves Updated to 1900
• Kapok life-jackets were given out with strict instructions not to use them as pillows but we were not told how long they could remain in the water before they became waterlogged. —  Coming of Age: 1939-1946
• The crew being secured against sinking by their life-jackets, succeeded in clambering into the ship--many of them more or less bruised and cut. —  The Lifeboat
• With this treatment no splints or plaster jackets are at all likely to be required. —  Papers on Health
• The day was clear and beautiful; the top-gallant yards were crossed on board of all the ships; the colours were flying; the crews were all dressed in white trousers and blue jackets, and hung in clusters, like bees; on the side of the rigging facing our ship: a guard of marines, under arms, was placed along each gangway, but on board of our ship they were on the quarter-deck. —  Frank Mildmay The Naval Officer

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