Sentence examples for seamen down from inspiring English sources

She took 121 seamen down with her; those wounded brought the casualty total to nearly 150.

Young seamen stared down at the sunken Utah and were told that rescuers heard trapped sailors frantically knocking against its sinking hull.

Historians say that almost as many Japanese died in the attacks as the 162 American seamen and officers who went down in the two recorded sinkings in human torpedo attacks.

But the series was not simply about the captains and the kings, for Isaacs was anxious to make it as much bottom-up as top-down: there are housewives trembling under the flail of the Blitz, infantrymen watching the ramp of their landing craft splash down on to a Normandy beach, and merchant seamen enduring an open boat in the Atlantic.

But concentrate instead on how Royal Navy seamen sacrificed their time and lives hunting down other countries' slavers in the 19th century, and one can feel proud of Pax Britannica.

Three merchant seamen were rescued after drifting in a broken down boat off Anglesey for three hours following New Year's Eve celebrations.

Tales handed down from the Inuit people describe cannibalism among the desperate seamen.

Flick the switch hidden behind the black-and-white photograph of the two Danish seamen standing outside the bar years ago, and the pistons start going up and down, turning the propeller shaft, powering an imaginary ship through the sea.

acehotel.com Built for sailors in 1908 by the American Seamen's Friend Society, the Jane in New York more recently served as a Y.M.C.A. and an S.R.O. for the down and out.

In the 1960s, he was a leading member of the seamen's union, accused by Harold Wilson of being "a tightly knit group of politically motivated men" trying to bring down the Labour government.

It sent down a delegation of fifty or so volunteer pickets, but the strikers asked them to go away when the seamen complained that they were so well-tailored that they couldn't be told from the brokers.