Sentence examples for midshipman on from inspiring English sources

He joined the Navy and served as a midshipman on a destroyer in the Pacific during World War II.

And so Sedley Duke, after a dismissive look at the nascent American navy, arranged to enroll his son James as a midshipman on a British ship.

Deryn Sharp, at pains to conceal her gender as a midshipman on Leviathan, an airborne military ecosystem, is falling for Alek, who is extremely busy trying to stake his claim to the Austro-Hungarian throne.

He was a midshipman on the battleship HMS Duke of York when it ferried Churchill to America for a secret meeting with Roosevelt after Pearl Harbor, and served throughout the battle of the Atlantic.

He spoke of himself as having been "personally involved" in that fight, as a midshipman on a Royal Navy minesweeper during the Six-Day War: "I was a friend of Israel long before I became a Tory".

The second son of the 4th Baron Byron, he was a midshipman on board the Wager in 1741 when it was wrecked off the coast of Chile during George Anson's voyage round the world.

It took place a quick ride south from Manhattan on the Acela Express, in Philadelphia, where the Navy Midshipmen took on the Black Knights of Army.

A month later, she was raped for a second time by two different midshipmen on the varsity basketball team.

And he convinced Mr. Weir and his co-writer John Collee to flesh out the script and add some scenes, particularly a couple showing Aubrey's teacher-student relationship with the young midshipmen on the Surprise.

In mid-year she steamed to the Mediterranean with a group of midshipmen on board.

Connecticut, leaving the rest of the squadron, departed for Annapolis and disembarked her midshipmen on August 30, then proceeded to Philadelphia.