Sentence examples for crewman from inspiring English sources

Because he likes Hemingway more than many other recent biographers have done, Mr Hendrickson lavishes pages on cordial relationships that blossomed on the boat with otherwise anonymous characters: an American diplomat in Havana whose wife typed Hemingway's letters; an aspiring writer who knocked on Hemingway's door in Key West seeking advice and was co-opted as a crewman.

Their meals reflect this diversity: Filipino greens, cooked in sweetened soy sauce, incomprehensible Danish cold cuts.A mid-19th-century crewman described his quarters thus: "Black, and slimy with filth, very small and hot as an oven.

When one of the pirates stripped his shirt off, "he was all bones, no meat at all," said a Basque crewman.

In 2015 it aims to launch Tiangong-2, the station's second phase.China's first manned flight took place in 2003 when a single crewman, Yang Liwei, made 14 orbits.

In 1994 an expedition discovered the body of a crewman, which was located near the bow and appeared to be wearing a lifejacket.

The use of mechanical and radio targeting devices by a specially trained aircraft crewman called a bombardier solved this problem during World War II.

The first, that of the HMS Endeavour, left England in August 1768 and had its climax on April 20 , 1770 when a crewman sighted southeastern Australia.

Trains are operated by remote control, requiring only one crewman per train to stand by in case of computer failure.

The original HMS Bounty, built in 1789, was deployed by the Royal Navy on a supply mission to the South Pacific when a crewman, Fletcher Christian, led one of the most famous mutinies in nautical history against the captain, William Bligh, as the ship sailed from Tahiti for the West Indies with a cargo of breadfruit.

The Greek coastguard has been accused of deliberately trying to sink a boat full of desperate Syrian refugees, after a video emerged appearing to show a crewman lunging at a rubber dinghy with a large pole.

A British crewman was killed in 1935 training off Southend and a Spanish crewman was killed in training prior to the 2000 America's Cup in Auckland.