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boatswain

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The officer (or warrant officer) in charge of sails, rigging, anchors, cables etc. and all work on deck of a sailing ship.

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After advancing to master's mate, and boatswain, both noncommissioned ranks, he was made master of HMS Pembrokee" at the age of 29.

"There was a sudden storm and we requested the boatswain to anchor at the riverside but he ignored us the ferry capsized within a few seconds," said Abdur Rahman, 50, a passenger who managed to swim to safety.

Rodolfo Miguel, the boatswain, discovered them the next morning.

Russell Dudemaine, BM1 (for boatswain mate 1st class) in command of the Coast Guard light-tower crew, came in, with 2 other men, whom he intoduced as Joe Nored MK1, & Blaine Ferree, EM3--they were the crew on duty during the visit.

Applicants must climb 50-foot-plus towers, calmly amble across scaffolded aeries, lug paint pails of up to 65 pounds, rig lines and tackles for gravity-defying boatswain chairs and clamber atop swooping bridge cables.

The properties, which date from 1830, include five terraced townhouses on Regency Close; the former residences of the dockyard's superintendent and boatswain; the stables; and the original police house, or police station, and a medical office.

You play Trebonius in Julius Caesar, Sir Walter Blunt and the Sheriff in Henry IV, and the boatswain in The Tempest.

Our boat song is "I'm on a Boat" by the Lonely Island: our coach and boatswain like to sing it, potentially just to annoy the other teams, but it's all in jest.

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Perched on Louie's Ledge, a sharp ridge of trachyte, a white and disconcertingly crumbly volcanic rock that sticks out about 400 metres above the ocean, you can look down on the teeming terns, frigatebirds and boobies of Boatswain Island.

Tim Boatswain, Luton's pro-vice-chancellor, argues that student numbers have been increased on the cheap.

Andrew Mueller It's no weddings, a funeral and a fraud case on the Chatsworth estate as Patreesha (Jacqueline Boatswain) sees her dreams of stardom shattered in Shameless's unpredictable final series.

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