A group of about a dozen men and a petty officer, clad in ancient, paint-stained overalls, would detach themselves from the remainder.
Petty Officer Breech, a fully qualified gunner's mate, was a strict disciplinarian and something of a martinet.
Apprenticed to a waterman, he afterwards went to sea, serving on different men-of-war as a petty officer.
The ex-priest proved himself to be a brave man in several engagements with the Moors and with an English warship, and was quickly promoted to be a petty officer.
Dampier must have found it very difficult to keep his journal so carefully and regularly, particularly in his early voyages, when he was merely a seaman before the mast or a petty officer.
Grasping the screw-driver he set to work, and had just driven home the last screw when the locked turned, and a petty officer entered.
One of my countrymen on board, whom we will call Patrick, an able seaman of long service, perpetually failed to attain to the rating of petty officer owing to his weakness for strong waters.
I made it a rule {366} not to disrate a petty officer in the presence of the ship's company.
This I sent by a petty Officer, as I had never objected against a Guard being put into any of my Boats wherein was no Commissioned Officer.
Formerly a petty officer on board ships of war, whose employment was to see that the decks were kept clean.
Petty Officer Chalmers, who, ignorant of the Russian language, could only base his surmise upon the fact that Klostivitch had suspiciously made himself scarce.
Slue her round and let her roll for'ard a bit, sir," suggested a petty officer.
Consequently he shouted his orders to a petty officer, whose head, as he stood on the short steel ladder, was level with the floor of the conning-tower.
Then the ensign will leave a petty officerin charge of deck and prisoners and report to me here.
Better come on board, too, Streeter," advised a petty officer on the launch.
Frowning, the ober-lieutenant whispered to a petty officer, who had placed on the table the same album that von Schellen had brought to the wardroom door.
If I can get a decent berth as a petty officer, off I go for Calcutta, and watch (like the sweet little cherub that sits up aloft) for the safety of my dear papa and mamma, as the Frenchmen are teaching us to call them.
There was nobody to take command, not even a petty officer.
As Fate would have it, Macrombie, ex-Petty Officer Telegraphist of the R.
It was Macrombie, ex-Petty Officer telegraphist, whom the Royal Navy had spat forth for being D.
Bawne was questioned, but nothing could be got out of him just then, except North Sea, so they wrapped him in a blue Navy blanket, and left him in charge of Petty Officer Stoll.
A sad thing happened on shore: a sailor hit a petty officer in the face.
They accepted him, promoted him to the rank of petty officer, and then discovered that he was under age.
It appears that there were several disturbances on shore yesterday, and all caused by a petty officer.
A boy from the Borodino, whose name I do not remember, has just come to ask me to help him gain permission to be examined for the rank of petty officer.
Orders would be generally communicated through the medium of a petty officer.
The conning-tower hatch was thrown open, and the head and shoulders of a petty officer appeared.
The gun's crew jumped to their stations, riflemen lay down on the bridge deck, and a petty officerwith an axe started to chop away the wires that were holding the boat.
If his officers had lived I think it probable we would have heard something to the credit of Petty Officer Perkins.
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