Sentence examples for a midshipman from from inspiring English sources

A notable member of this group was Prince William, later William IV, who served as a midshipman from 1780 1785.

To guarantee that this would happen, Graves sent the armed schooner Margaretta (sometimes also spelled Margueritta or Marguerite in historical accounts), under the command of James Moore, a midshipman from his flagship HMS Preston, to accompany the two merchant vessels.

A sense of history lingers, with peeling colonial mansions and plaques recalling famous visitors such as Admiral Horatio Lord Nelson in 1776 (then a midshipman being invalided home from the East Indies to England) and The Jungle Book author Rudyard Kipling (who visited several times between 1865 and 1936).

From there, she took a crew of naval cadets from the Naval Academy on a midshipman training cruise off the coast of New England, which lasted until 25 August.

In my anthology there is a wonderfully unpredictable sea story from the 1840s by Frederick Marryat in which a midshipman falls hopelessly in love with a wind in human form.

As a rare-book dealer, Gibson uses the documents as characters in his story, explaining in particular how a midshipman's account of the Dolphin journey was serendipitously passed from dealer to dealer before popping up in his mailbox.

Burrell graduated from the college in 1921 and became a midshipman the next year.

He climbed up to the poop deck, attended by a midshipman, and spent the morning watching the coastline slowly recede from view.

Officially, a prospective lieutenant was at least 19, and was expected to produce proof of his service, which would include certificates from his commanders and journals kept while a midshipman.

In the 17th century, a midshipman was a rating for an experienced seaman, and the word derives from the area aboard a ship, amidships, either where the original rating worked on the ship, or where he was berthed.

From the 18th century until the second half of the 19th century, a midshipman in the Royal Navy who passed the lieutenant's examination did not automatically receive a commission.