The Story of the Heroic Midshipman of the Frigate Constellation.
It was well for him that the midshipman on duty in his corridor had been one of the marauders, otherwise he would have been speedily reported for that which followed.
But it so happened that the officer in charge was possessed of a flickering memory of his own midshipman days, and his twinkling eyes and cheerful grin were reassuring.
Among the former was Midshipman Jarvis, a young man of great promise, who commanded in the main-top.
Until the year 1804, Jesse Elliott was engaged in prosecuting his studies at Carlisle, Pennsylvania, when he was appointed a midshipman in the navy, and ordered on board the United States frigate Essex.
Amidst such a band of brave and kindred spirits, our young midshipman learned to smile at danger, while he grew familiar with it, and felt his ideas expanded and enlarged.
Before they were aware of the character of their visitors, Decatur had sprung on board, followed by Midshipman Charles Morris: these officers were nearly a minute on the deck before their companions joined them.
He entered the navy as midshipman in 1800, then in his seventeenth year.
He was a midshipman on board of the United States, when she bore to France Chief Justice Ellsworth and General Davie, as envoys extraordinary to the French Republic.
After two years’ service as midshipman in the Nautilus, greatest part of the time being spent in cruises in the Mediterranean, Stephen Cassin was promoted to a lieutenancy on board the John Adams, Captain Shaw.
Mr Hewett accordingly despatched his gig, under command of Mr Hayles, gunner of the Beagle, and paddle-box boats under Mr Martin Tracy, midshipman of the Vesuvius.
Esdaile, midshipman of the Barfleur, the latter mortally.
This young officer, a midshipman of Captain Peel's ship, took example from the conduct of his noble chief, and vied with him in feats of daring.
Fletcher, midshipman in command of the second cutter, and who had charge of the boats while on shore, was shot through the head and killed.
The midshipman had his glass in his hand, but forebore to taste it.
At this time, Mr. Dudley de Chair, midshipman of the Alexandra, was captured and taken to Arabi's lines.
They succeeded in capturing a donkey, when they were fired on by a midshipman of the Alexandra and twelve seamen, and two of their number were killed.
Getting over against the signal fires blazing on Flamborough Head, she wore ship and stood across our bows, the midshipman on the forecastle singing out to her, by the commodore's orders, to lay the enemy by the board.
Mr. Linthwaite, who was midshipman of the forecastle.
When he was seventeen years old he served asmidshipman in the 'Wager,' a vessel attached to the squadron under the command of Commodore Anson which sailed out to the Spanish Settlements in the Pacific in 1740.
On reaching the deck, he found the mate of the watch had fallen asleep, and that the othermidshipman was not to be seen.
As has been said, Isaac’s father, John Brock, was a midshipman and had travelled to India, in those days a great distance away.
He was a sailor, had been a midshipman in the navy, and his duty had carried him far afield, to India and other outposts.
At the time of which I write people flattered themselves that the sufferings which 'Midshipman Easy' and 'The Naval Officer' underwent while serving the Crown were tales of the past.
So close were the men that the midshipman seized the big black by the arm and stopped his progress.
Caesar going try," said the black confidently; but he did not inspire the midshipman with the same amount of confidence.
But Murray had the satisfaction of noting that his brother midshipmanwas slowly recovering his senses.
As the man spoke, the midshipman did as he was requested, so far as to take hold of the shaft of a spear.
This silence was to the midshipman the most painful part of the task which he had been called upon to bear.
Caesar know," he whispered hoarsely, and the midshipman felt the fingers which gripped his wrist twitch and jerk as he was pulled towards the corner of the room just beyond the window.
Tug and jerk, tug and jerk, in the midst of a confusion that grew more and more wild, as the midshipman strove to free himself from the bond which held him fast.
Mr. Midshipman Hamshaw and a party of six men aboard a steam pinnace were left struggling in the water owing to their craft colliding with a half-submerged waterplane.
To be perfectly truthful, there was not so much as a single hair on Alec's chin or lip, any more than there was on Mr. Midshipman Hamshaw's.
He was teasing the gallant Mr. Midshipman Hamshaw, and had he been Alec there would have been a rumpus.
The three days which passed after Mr. Midshipman Hamshaw added his important presence to the airship were decidedly busy ones.
But don't let's fret about him, for a midshipman's a midshipman all over the world and a wonder at getting into and out of scrapes.
But then Mr. Midshipman Hamshaw was not altogether an ordinary individual.
Indeed, we must report the fact that Mr. Midshipman Hamshaw was almost reduced to the condition of abject funk.
It was part of the magnate's scheme to make himself agreeable to all and sundry, and now, as Mr. Midshipman Dick joined him, he greeted that promising young officer with effusion.
Then he dived into Dick's pocket, fished out the arrowhead, and soon had the lashings which bound the midshipman lying loose beside him.
The midshipman was bound to confess that he was becoming accustomed to his surroundings.
The bashful midshipmanrecounted what had happened, and how he had overcome the many difficulties which had, one after another, faced him.
Mr. Midshipman Hamshaw carried an appetite wherever he went, and his breakfast this morning showed that heat hardly affected him.
Mr. Midshipman Easy" is frankly farcical; it shows its author not only as a graphic writer, but as one gifted with an abundance of whimsical humour and a keen sense of characterisation.
The Lieutenant of the Watch, in frock-coat and sword-belt, paused beside the Midshipman and raised his glass, a dry smile creasing the corners of his eyes.
On the quarterdeck of one of the Battleships the Midshipman of the Afternoon Watch rubbed the lense of his telescope with his jacket cuff, adjusted the focus against a stanchion, and prepared to make the most of this heaven-sent diversion.
The Midshipman of the Watch lowered his sextant and sniffed longingly, his nose in the air; the off-shore wind had brought with it a hint of heather and moist earth.
Her Midshipman avoided our eyes as we passed, but his expression of incredulous exasperation I have seen matched only on the face of one whose loved and trusted hunter has refused a familiar jump.
It was the Midshipman of the First Watch, calling the reliefs.
The Senior Midshipman responded to the summons with an alacrity that hinted at a conscience not wholly void of offence.
The Midshipman vanished and reappeared a few minutes later with two cups of steaming beverage.
The engine-room bell rang twice, and the Midshipman gave a quick turn to the wheel.
Perhaps the Midshipman of the boat realised it too, for he abandoned the wheel and assisted in the embarkation with the ready hand and averted eye that told of no small experience in such matters.
The Midshipman nodded: "I saw some kids dancing round a policeman once.
His duties included that of servant to the Midshipman in question, and he resented the scepticism of a stranger who sat on the lid of his master's chest eating cold currant pudding out of a string-bag.
Half an hour later the Midshipman of the Second Picket Boat, garbed in the "rig of the day," was ladling sugar over his porridge with the abandon of one who is seventeen and master of his fate.
By this time the crackle of musketry told the midshipman that the rest of his comrades were engaged with the scanty Turkish garrison.
At this rate we'll be through in less than a week," remarked Midshipman Sefton to Dick, as they sat in the stern-sheets of a launch packed with armed seamen.
Gravely saluting the hospitable Mahommedan priest, Dick and the midshipman took their departure.
Holding the torch in his left hand, Dick seized the midshipman by the strap of his field-glasses.
One of the shells from these guns had resulted in the subsidence of the already tottering masonry, and had effectively imprisoned Sub-lieutenant Crosthwaite and Midshipman Sefton in the magazine.
Once more the midshipman was right in his surmise.
The midshipman had not to steer a compass course, since Bourne was responsible for the navigation, and as long as the two boats of the Hammerer kept together all was well.
The Sub smiled at the way in which the midshipman had "got his own back".
The food, washed down by a little spring water, revived them considerably, the midshipmandeclaring that he felt "absolutely bucked".
Leaving the midshipman and four sailors to guard the boat, we started on foot with the other four for Sonoma Town, which we soon reached.
Accordingly, the long boat was ordered with this midshipman and eight sailors, prepared with water and provisions for several days absence.
Eventually captured byMidshipman Hull Foot of the U.
When a lad he had served as a midshipman in an East Indiaman, the Asia, but having been caught red-handed robbing the purser of brandy and wine, he was flogged and sent to serve as a sailor before the mast.
Coxswain to Captain Hood, he was promoted in 1763 to be a midshipman in H.
Among her officers were Samuel Flinders, second lieutenant and brother of Matthew, and a midshipman named John Franklin, afterwards Sir John Franklin, the Arctic explorer and at one time governor of Tasmania.
The instruction I gave the midshipman who commanded her was to examine Storm Bay Passage and leave His Majesty's colours flying there with a guard, and that it was my intention to send an establishment there by the Porpoise.
In 1764 Byron, who had been a midshipman on the Wager, sailed as commodore of an expedition consisting of two ships, the Dolphin and the Tamar, to make discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere.
Heywood, the midshipman who was tried for his life, was her step-father, and she had very good reason to remember Bligh with no friendly feeling.
Upon arriving at the surface, after his plunge, Oriel struck out for the spot where the midshipman had fallen, but saw nothing of the object of his search.
Hearty cut his opponent's sword-arm above the elbow with such force that it severed the bone, and at the same moment the young midshipman Loop run him through the body with a boarding-pike.
Take a boat and see if you can save any of those rascals sprawling in the water," exclaimed the captain to the midshipman Loop.
Midshipman Joseph Israel also managed to get on the ketch unobserved, and was permitted to remain.
When Commodore Perry arrived with his fleet and General Quitman with his brigade, they found the capture, for which they had made such large preparations, already effected, and the place was turned over to them by the midshipman in charge.
He had entered the service in 1798, during the hostilities with France, when he joined his father's ship as a midshipman at the age of thirteen.
The midshipman hailed the deck, and reported to the officers what had happened; but they were too busy to send men up to repair the damage.
The officer of the maintop was James Jarvis, the youngest midshipmanon board the ship.
Upon this, Lieutenant Hunter threw a midshipman and five men into the fort, and pushing on to the town took possession of it, as well as of another town near by, and after capturing all the shipping, held his course up the river.
In the bow was the gun's crew underMidshipman Robert Spence.
Afterward he went to London, and in 1770, when a war was threatened between Great Britain and Spain, he obtained an appointment as midshipman in the Royal Navy under Captain Stirling.
Young Nicholas Biddle, of Philadelphia, had been a midshipman in the Royal Navy, and had resigned his post to fight for his country; but he was thought to be too young, though he had seen more real service than his fellow officers.
Perry had with him his little brother Alexander,--a boy twelve years old, whom he was taking to be a midshipmanon board his ship.
On the morning of the 5th of July the signal was given to put to sea, and at first some of the boats towed the raft, which had no one to command it but a midshipman named Coudin, who, having a painful wound on his leg, was utterly useless.
Parker had, eleven years previously, entered the navy as a midshipman on board the Culloden, from which vessel he had been discharged for gross misconduct.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "midshipman" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: bluejacket; boot; cadet; freshman; jolly; junior; marine; midshipman; senior; undergraduate
