'seaman' is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is a noun that can refer to someone who works on a ship and is also a rank in the navy. Example sentence: The seaman expertly steered the ship into the harbor.
My boyfriend and I have lived on our motor sailor for years, yet had to enlist the help of an able seaman for our one trip out of the marina - and that was to move home.
He had the help of a free black seaman who gave him identity papers.
The cost of the sailor's gluttony was equivalent to the cost of feeding an entire crew for twelve months.That story is probably not true no sane person would leave something so valuable for an absent-minded seaman to chew on.
Without him, she would have the same income as a merchant seaman.
David Masiel's second maritime adventure, published in America last December and now just out in Britain, pitches the reader into a cruel world of betrayal and corruption.Mr Masiel, who draws on a decade's experience as a merchant seaman, came to attention in 2002 when his first novel, "2182 Kilohertz" was published.
Mr Tetley nursed his unsuitable trimaran almost all the way home, until she sank in the Atlantic.Bernard Moitessier, a Frenchman raised in Vietnam, was a mystic and consummate seaman.
The crews and surgeons of both ships then saw to the wounded and, in a ritualistic funeral, the bodies of an American officer and a British seaman were buried together at sea.Another American captain, Stephen Decatur, was even more gallant when his frigate, the United States, destroyed a British frigate, the Macedonian.
A DECREPIT chemical tanker seeks refuge in an African port; a seaman searches for salvation; a plot to steal a black-market fortune is unfurled.
The match, and England's campaign, were on a knife-edge, with David Seaman having just saved Gary McAllister's penalty.
She married millionaire Robert Seaman in 1895, but after his death she suffered financial reverses, and she returned to newspaper work on the New York Journal in 1920.
It seems like a lifetime ago but it is merely 15 years since Robbie Fowler told a referee and TV cameras that he had not been brought down by David Seaman in the penalty area during a vital collision between Arsenal and Liverpool.
