seaman

• His skills as a seaman are ignored, and even his determination as an entrepreneur is forgotten. —  National Review Online
• I have had considerable experience as a seaman, and would like a little more as an officer," replied Perth, politely We shall dispense with the services of all the officers except the lieutenants," added the captain. —  Down the Rhine Young America in Germany
• As he was becoming a thorough seaman, and read and wrote better than most of the men in the ship, the captain promised, should a vacancy occur, to give him an acting warrant as boatswain or gunner The Thisbe had been more than a year on the station. —  Won from the Waves
• The cook was an expert in the galley and a thorough seaman; the other as able a seaman, and a navigator past the criticism of the rest His navigation had its limits, however, and this gale defined them. —  "Where Angels Fear to Tread" and Other Stories of the Sea
• This is how it was: My father was a seaman, and belonged to the `Raisonable,' just fitted out by Captain Suckling, and lying in the Medway. —  The Story of Nelson also "The Grateful Indian", "The Boatswain's Son"

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