As commanding the Tartar guns I was also very pleased to be able to mention six of my men, and am full of admiration of the way in which my bluejackets have worked, shot, and stood the cold and marching.
I may mention, in passing, that all the bluejackets who were landed at Simon's Bay for shore duty were fitted with khaki suits, viz.
As we have only sixty bluejackets left up here we are overloaded.
Each batch of bluejackets that were sent to the front, about twelve men in a batch, was allowed two canvas bags to hold spare clothes and other gear, and took three days' provisions and water.
I hope the services of the bluejackets in these operations, which have been invaluable, will receive the recognition they deserve at the end of the campaign.
Having struggled long against my dysentery I am now compelled to go on the sick list; and feel it to be a great blow, after all my trouble and training, that my Terrible bluejackets are to go.
He now travelled third class, finding himself in the company of fourbluejackets proceeding "on leave.
For the most part the bluejackets were accepting the conditions with the same equanimity as when they fall in on the lower deck for dinner.
Apart from the fact that he was no longer commander of a vessel, and had perforce to spend his time superintending the embarking and landing of bluejackets and naval stores, he had been used to handling ships of large tonnage.
Presently one of the bluejackets strolled up to the spot where Kenneth and his chum were standing.
For the most part the bluejackets were young men of good physique.
All day and all night the Royal Engineers and Bluejackets had been labouring to get the weapons into position, and at this hour the party were taking a "breather" after their long and arduous efforts.
Bluejackets blew up Tugela Road bridge, and cut off Boers with their guns.
Commodore Joshua Barney and his four hundred weather-beaten bluejackets declined to join this speed contest.
At one o'clock in the morning of the 9th of October they were alongside the pair of enemy brigs and together the bluejackets and the infantry tumbled over the bulwarks with cutlass, pistols, and boarding pike.
The fair-haired bluejackets were extremely clean and comely, but struck me as being drilled too much like soldiers, and wanting the natural manner of our men.
The function was very long, for the King had to give a medal to each one of the three hundred bluejackets and marines who passed before him in single file.
Half a dozen bluejackets seized the huge buoy and slung it overboard.
Making her way through crowds of bluejackets who formed the bulk of the passengers, Mrs. Aubyn called a cab and bade the man drive her to Shotley as quickly as possible.
Over the heads and shoulders of a tightly-packed throng of bluejackets the brute vaulted; then, viewing a comparatively clear space, it bounded towards the sacred precincts of the quarter-deck.
The next minute a British captain and three lieutenants followed by a hundred bluejacketshad boarded her.
In two minutes a dozen bluejackets had appeared from nowhere, and just as a matter of formality were asked to have a drink at the bar.
It seemed quite possible that Stickine had blundered into the Aleuts' clutches or that a body of the gunboat's bluejackets had been sent ashore.
Except for one or two men forward the bluejackets were drawn up in little groups about the deck and stood motionless, apparently watching the sealers' boat that heaved in the haze ahead.
He had, however, little time to look round, for as the sealers stepped in through the gangway a cluster of bluejackets closed in about them, and one of them laid his hand on Stickine's shoulder.
There is a remote possibility that we may take them unawares or find but a few there, but I trust mainly to locating them, then sending for Disbrow and his bluejackets and attacking the rascals' lair with an overwhelming force.
Far below him, thin, wavering curls of pale blue smoke were arising from the site of the native village, fired by the bluejackets on the previous evening.
And he had feared that the bluejackets might rake about the ashes and find it.
Then, followed by their women and children, they broke through the bluejackets and escaped into the dense mountain jungle, where they were safe from pursuit.
It was a just punishment for permitting bluejackets to defeat them!
The Yeoman's camp, the Seamen's camp--nothing but bluejackets from morning until night.
I got to thinking that, perhaps, the bluejackets were starting something in Paris, and I thought I'd take a run up just to see they weren't putting anything over on the marine corps.
One slim, young marine is enough to make a gay and irresponsible party of bluejackets along the docks sit up and take notice.
They watch the preparations of the bluejackets for mooring at the stage with a detached professional interest; some of them gaze out to the nor'ard where the transports of the convoy are approaching.
Armed to the teeth, an officer from the cruiser would board us: the bluejackets of his boat's crew had each a rifle at hand.
The platform was thronged by bluejacketsand marines, for on this particular evening the period of leave, granted by some battleship in the North, had expired.
The bluejackets were already in their carriages, and the remaining officers, to the number of about a score, were settling down in their compartments.
From every carriage poured a throng of hungry bluejackets in search of breakfast.
But as the bluejackets were of inestimable service in getting the remainder of the boats through the Cataract, and fitting them out at Gemai, where the soldiers embarked, he desired to keep them where they were as long as possible.
Wilson of the Hecla sent 20 bluejacketsand six Marines to assist me.
For the foreign bluejackets were ordered to occupy their respective Legations and not to take any part in restoring order.
The men of the Condor were reinforced from the Fleet on these expeditions, so that the total force of bluejackets and Marines was 150.
Her boat was manned by Irish bluejackets whom I had trained myself.
The admiral could only spare me 60 bluejackets and 70 Marines from the British Fleet; but he obtained a proportionate number from the foreign warships.
There were numerous horses in Malta, and the midshipmen and bluejackets used to hire them for half-a-crown a day.
But the bluejackets dragged the guns up through the sand and bushes.
A party of bluejackets did once succeed in taking them from the {47} cathedral and carrying them on board; but the admiral ordered their restoration.
Two horses were harnessed to each cart, assisted, when required, by bluejacketshauling on drag-ropes.
After we had anchored you dispatched me in a small boat with six bluejackets to the assistance of the nuggar.
One of the bluejackets he saw had a bottle concealed beneath his jumper.
The excitement among the bluejackets at the return of the wanderer spread to every ship.
I will do better than that," said I, as we both moved off to join some of the other bluejackets scouting away behind us, who had come up during the stoppage of our march through the wild country.
These gallant fellows, I should add, to give all honour to the corps, stood stauncher even than we bluejackets did that day; for, not a man turned his back on the foe until the captain gave the word.
It was a cheer such as British bluejackets alone can give; and then we saw the Union Jack run up on the top of a big bungalow in the centre of the town, the only hut or building that had escaped destruction in the general conflagration.
As the Abyssinian army retreated, Captain Fellowes and his bluejackets took up a fresh position farther in advance, sending their rockets into the flying crowd as they ascended the hillside.
As many bluejackets as could be spared from the ships were now landed, and several officers arrived out from England.
Major Russell immediately despatched a requisition for assistance, when a body of marines and bluejackets from the ships in the roads were landed and sent off.
In this siege the bluejackets of Old England, as well as the redcoats, took a part.
These bluejackets have not only drunk me out of champagne and Allsopp, but so tapped myself that I am perfectly dry.
And from the opposite side of the ship three boat-loads of bluejackets were as silently doing the same thing--but, pulling in the opposite direction, en route to a little barrio less than three kilometers down the coast.
At the instant Dorlan finished speaking a half dozen laughing bluejackets came running around a corner into the marines' compartment.
He found Webb lying on deck, his head supported by a bundle of sailcloth, and one of the bluejackets bathing his face with sea-water.
Nor did the British bluejackets attempt to interfere.
The bluejackets will be coming ashore some time in the evening to enjoy themselves," remarked Dick.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bluejackets" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
