The chief mate is always on deck, but takes no active part, all the duty coming upon the second mate, who has to roll up his trowsers and paddle about decks barefooted, like the rest of the crew.
I being in the starboard or second mate's watch, had the opportunity of keeping the first watch at sea.
He left us to take the berth of second mate on board the Ayacucho, which was lying in port.
Prior to entering the Navy he had been a foremast hand in clipper ships and had held a second mate's berth.
It was customary, it may still be customary at sea, to invite the decision of the crew before electing a man to fill a vacant post as first or second mate.
Second mate," I replied, pausing and looking round at the man.
When he had been home awhile, he saw an advertisement for a second mate, and he went round to the owners'.
I suppose it is no secret and I may possibly give you some advice that will be serviceable, for I have been surgeon's second mate on board of a seventy-gun ship, and consequently know a good deal of the world.
It was a long letter and he told her many things, but he did not tell her that the vessel in which he had sailed as second mate was a privateersman.
So Tom drank another glass of Mr. Lovejoy’s fine old sherry, the old gentleman offered liberal terms, and the end of the matter was that Tom promised to enter as second mate of the Nancy Hazlewood, privateersman.
I do not know how it was that Tom Granger got the title of captain, for the highest grade that he ever reached was that of second mate of the Privateersman Nancy Hazlewood.
I didn't want to be second mate when he made me do it, and I can't read figures good nor nothing.
But he made me second mate, he did, and he hadn't ought to shame me in front of all the men, now had he?
The chief mate is always on deck, but takes no active part, all the duty coming upon the second mate, who has to roll up his trousers and paddle about decks barefooted, like the rest of the crew.
I, being in the starboard or second mate's watch, had the opportunity of keeping the first watch at sea.
I walked through in a trance, faced Mr Powell, from whom I learned that we were bound to Port Elizabeth first, and signed my name on the Articles of the ship Ferndale as second mate--the voyage not to exceed two years.
Haven't seen the captain, to speak to, since yesterday afternoon when he rushed off to pick up a second mate somewhere.
If you let him sign on as second mate at once I'll take the Articles away with me now.
Our new acquaintance looking from one to the other of us declared: "Upon my word, I had grown so desperate that I'd have gone boldly up to the devil himself on the mere hint that he had a second mate's job to give away.
I came aboard here to look after young Mr. Wallis, and do second mate's duty, until Mr. Kelly was better.
I have never seen him since, but heard that long after he had passed as second mate, he returned to our native island, only to find that our mother was dead, and that I had gone.
You've as good as killed Mr. Kelly, and maybe I'll want you as second mate again.
He was signed on the ship's articles as boatswain, but really he was intended to act as second mate, keeping the captain's watch and doing the ordinary duties of a second officer.
The next day the captain went on shore to visit the governor, and with him several of our officers; and the captain of the Madagascar ship, formerly my second mate, and the captain of the brigantine.
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