And I have not much doubt as to your being able to get a berth as ordinary seaman; for you are a big strong fellow, and for mere pulling and hauling purposes any skipper ought to be glad to get hold of you.
I've done the trick; got the skipper of the Concordia to allow me to work my passage out to Port Natal as ordinary seaman at a shilling a month.
Ordinary seaman, United States Navy, for extraordinary heroism in the line of his profession while operating against outlaws on the island of Basilan, P.
Ordinary seaman; for jumping overboard from the U.
Ordinary seaman apprentice; for jumping overboard from the U.
To my surprise and gratification I found myself shipped as an ordinary seaman, at thirty shillings per month, three pounds of which I already held in the form of a "promise to pay.
You will place this man, Ordinary Seaman Taylor, under restraint, and arraign him at the mast at one o'clock with the other prisoners.
Then I went on board Her Majesty's frigate Madagascar and shipped for five years as an ordinary seaman.
The quota of able seamen was filled, and the best I could do was to ship as an ordinary seaman at fourteen dollars a month.
That I refused to do, and I explained that I was fully capable of being a petty officer, and that I would not throw away my chances for being rated as such by shipping as an ordinary seaman.
He did not feel any better entitled to tread the same deck with the glorious old hero, as a master, than he did as an ordinary seaman.
With a smile he recalled his own reflections, when, as an ordinary seaman, he had observed the captain of his ship walk the deck.
Tickler' is a derogatory term for an ordinary seaman.
You're an ordinary seaman, an' wot you've got to do is to carry out other people's orders.
For an ordinary seaman to be asked to go ashore with a man of Billings's age was undoubtedly a great honour; but, at the same time, he was rather doubtful as to what might happen.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ordinary seaman" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
