Sentence examples for merchant captain from inspiring English sources
In 1832 he acquired a master's certificate as a merchant captain.
Born to an improvident merchant captain and his wife during a homeward voyage from the West Indies, Raffles grew up in an atmosphere of debt.
1616 - Dirck Hartog, also spelled Dirk Hartog or Dyrck Hartoochz (flourished 1616), Dutch merchant captain who made the first recorded exploration of the western coast of Australia.
"Ideas like blowing off their propellers are just not practical," said a merchant captain docked at the Persian Gulf port of Dubai.
One of the best is a portrait of Jasper Cropsey, a merchant captain in New York and an ancestor of the Hudson River School painter by the same name.
WASHINGTON — President Obama vowed Monday to "halt the rise of piracy" off the coast of Africa following the dramatic rescue of an American merchant captain, foreshadowing a longer and potentially more treacherous struggle ahead as he weighs a series of problematic options.
The baritone Anthony Michaels-Moore was vocally earthy and sympathetic as the wizened merchant skipper Captain Balstrode, Grimes's only other friend.
His ships departed Britain under the command of British merchant captains, with British crews and British papers — and were ostensibly bound on peaceful cruises to commercial ports.
Royal Navy and merchant captains guaranteed themselves full rations while their men went hungry, beat crew members at their whim, and treated dissent as mutinous.
"We never dreamed that merchant captains would keep sailing in," one of the operation's planners confessed later.
When one French squadron under Admiral Linois had tried to seize a convoy in 1805, it had been driven off by the aggressive tactics of the merchant captains.
