Hence, not only was the merchant sailor an able seaman, he was also trained in the handling of great guns, and in the use of the cutlass, the musket and the boarding-pike.
Then a huge German seized his pistol-wrist and tried to wrench the weapon away from him, only to be struck at and thwarted by Petty-Officer Woodfield and finally cutlassed by Able Seaman Ingelson.
Betty Gallup, looking every whit the "able seaman" now, rigged her own line quickly and opened the bait can.
But the "able seaman" knew this coast as well, at least, as Lawford Tapp.
Going to get him back to Tapp Point just as quick as I can," declared the "able seaman" to Louise.
Emil is a man grown and an able seaman; the boy is neither.
I have been the mate of a steamer, but I could not get any better position than that of able seaman, and I wanted to be in this stir-up.
Mr. Flint, this man is Michael Bornhoff; he is an able seaman and a pilot in these waters.
You cannot ship as a pilot, only as an able seaman, if you know how to hand, reef, and steer, and how to make knots and splices.
Although not shipped as an able seaman, he was a strong, active young man, and it was necessary to supply his place.
My yarn was scarcely out when I was summoned to have my name entered on the ship's books, and to hear my rating, which was that of "able seaman.
I felt that I had passed that boundary when I found myself rated as an able seaman on board the Syren sloop of war.
But you're a able seaman, you know what it is to manage a wife.
As my shipmates promptly informed me, I had had my nerve with me to sign on as able seaman.
After a week's stay in a sailors' boarding-house, he had been shoved aboard of us as an able seaman.
Thus, in the forecastle, with the watch below, an able seaman, lying in his bunk, will order an ordinary seaman to fetch him his shoes or bring him a drink of water.
A rating in coasters for one receiving whole pay, as being competent to all his duties; able seaman.
The questioner, an able seaman, cursed under his breath.
After some hesitation and tittering, the challenge was presently accepted by Able Seaman M'Sweeny.
Once, when Mrs Buttings, the wife of an able seaman, had been ailing, and had had to undergo a rather serious operation, Mrs Toby heard of it through her husband.
At Boston, he shipped before the mast as able seamanin a big deep-water ship.
Still, the same proportion between the classes is preserved, an ordinary seaman getting about two dollars less than an able seaman, and the boys, from nothing up to two dollars less than ordinary seamen, according to circumstances.
But the cold experienced in this voyage so disgusted him that he managed to get his indentures cancelled, and in 1671 engaged himself as an able seaman on a great vessel of the East India Company which was leaving England for Java.
From apprentice he became an able seaman, and at last, in the year 1752 (always working hard to acquire the science of navigation and to educate himself in every way), he became mate of a collier vessel.
An Able Seaman burnishing a search-light on the boat-deck heard the strident bugle-call and winced.
An Able Seaman paused in his occupation of burnishing the top of the after-capstan, and passed the back of his hand across his forehead.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "able seaman" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
