In this way was maintained a school of seamanship which furnished the most intelligent and efficient officers of the merchant marine.
Axes and hatchets were plied and all the skill and seamanship of the conquerors brought into play.
Hornigold's seamanship and skill had been magnificent.
The vessel, in fact, like all ships in those days and especially Spanish galleons, had a tendency to go to leeward like a barrel, and only Morgan's resourceful seamanship had saved them from the fatal embraces of the shore long since.
It had been a tremendous feat of seamanship and bade fair to be successful.
With nice seamanship he threw her up into the wind, hove her to, and dropped a boat overboard.
Lieutenant Preville especially complimented us on the seamanship we had displayed, and assured us that it was a great satisfaction to him to have been our shipmate through so trying an event.
It was the moment when they had passed successfully their first examination and left the seamanship Examiner with the little precious slip of blue paper in their hands.
No doubt they were a heterogeneous bunch, drawn from every breed and race, and in no small force either, for their trade was not so much seamanship as rapine and fighting.
Ay, and he spoke English well, with never pause for a word, even to terms of seamanship a bit obscure.
It has been necessary for us to attend to the defects of Arabic geography, in order to understand how in the long Saracen control of the world's trade routes and of geographical tradition, science and seamanship were so little advanced.
Even his nearest forerunners, in seamanship or in map-making[33] were strikingly different from himself.
Also, as the earliest centre of Portugal was a harbour, and its earliest border a river, there was a sort of natural, though slumbering, fitness for seamanship in the people.
But I once did a little bit of seamanship of which I am rather proud.
The superior seamanship and gunnery of the Americans enabled them quickly to win a victory as brilliant as that won by Dewey and his men.
The battle was a brilliant exhibition of superb training and seamanship on the part of the American sailors, whose rapid and accurate handling of the guns was marvellous.
He truly told them that seamanshipis an art not to be acquired off-hand by landsmen, or to be picked up as a mere minor accomplishment, but that it requires long practice, uninterrupted by other occupations.
A disagreement as to valour and prowess and seamanship had arisen between some sailor lads who belonged to the two different sections.
They looked upon him as a captain of the first rank, both in seamanship and education.
His great seamanship must be tested, and as to learning, what do we care for learning?
We three had really learned no mean amount of rough-and-ready seamanship by this time, and we had certainly practised the art of grumbling as well.
His hold over the captain was not from superior seamanship alone.
The commercial and naval success of this country is largely the result of the enterprise and seamanshipshown in the whaling fisheries.
In those days, there being no naval academy, the young midshipmen entered as mere boys, learning the rudiments of seamanship by actual practice on ships at sea.
Under successive superintendents, the Naval Academy has become one of the first professional schools in the world, having thus far graduated over twelve hundred naval officers, equipped either for seamanship or engineering.
Both ships were crippled, and had become almost unmanageable, and in each, equal courage and seamanship were displayed.
So an ever-widening circle of American enterprise centered around this single industry, the nursery of seamanship and the maritime spirit.
One of the conditions of membership was that each applicant should pass an examination in seamanship before a committee of the finest sailors in the world.
He learned in his youth, from the lips of a race now extinct, what the nature and traditions of seamanship were before he and his contemporaries lived.
Iberville observed the movement; the two English vessels were near; he veered around, and by a superb piece of seamanship came so near to the Hampshire that the crew of the latter saw that boarding was intended.
Occasionally some studding-sail-boom would carry away, or ropes attached to it would break; and we watched the degrees of seamanship exercised by the various officers in getting sails reset as speedily as possible.
The first ordeal was a Seamanship examination on board the Victory.
Soon appeared my sheet of foolscap duly signed, and I was a free man, as having passed my Seamanship examination.
He was a brave man and a master of seamanship in all the minute knacks and tricks of seamanship of that day; but this was only his third voyage between London and the St. Lawrence, and the previous trips had been made in clear weather.
Of all branches of human skill, that of seamanship appealed most strongly to John Darling's heart and head.
Cool and steady action on the part of the commander, met by corresponding conduct on the part of the officers and crew, thorough seamanship exhibited in every manoeuvre she attempted, saved the noble vessel from capture.
The superiority of American gunnery and American seamanship was again established beyond dispute.
The seamanship of her officers was, however, tested during the cruise.
No iron ship of yesterday ever attained the marvels of speed which the seamanship of men famous in their time had obtained from their wooden, copper-sheeted predecessors.
Therefore I have read with profound regret, in that article upon the yachting season of a certain year, that the seamanship on board racing yachts is not now what it used to be only a few, very few, years ago.
One of the first things I discovered was that I knew far less aboutseamanship than I gave myself credit for.
If so, there would not be seamanship enough in the rest to set a topsail or read a chart; and every moment the breeze was freshening and promising us a lively morning.
Alone of all the six men on the derelict, Captain Kettle had knowledge of the seaman's craft; but, for the present, thews and not seamanship were required.
