Sentence examples for seamen in from inspiring English sources

The strong equatorial currents were familiar to seamen in the days of sail.

When Steed started the Hostage Support Program, there were more than seven hundred seamen in captivity in Somalia.

The English were considered the finest seamen in the world and their naval traditions were the ideal.

I got to know policemen and fire fighters in Chicago, students in Evanston, seamen in Texas, farmers and store keepers in Indiana, and Filipino immigrants in California.

There were separate schemes for hospital personnel in Argentina (1921), shipbuilders in Uruguay (1922), merchant seamen in Chile (1925), and dockworkers in Peru (1934).

In the navy, lined up on his ship with 1,199 other seamen in pure white, he affected navy and white because it looked nicer.

Pilots get plenty of time off and (a rarity for seamen) sleep in their own beds at night.

There's nothing new in that: despite thousands of merchant seamen dying in the Atlantic Convoys, the US didn't give them veteran status until 1982.

More than 600 Argentine soldiers and seamen died in the two-month war fought with Britain in 1982, when the U.K. sent a war fleet and marine brigade 8,000 miles down the length of the Atlantic to attack and expel the Argentine force that had seized the islands.

Merchant seamen settled in cities with docks: Cardiff, Liverpool and London.

He reorganized the recruitment system on a rotating basis, whereby seamen served in the royal navy for six months every three years.