Sentence examples for seamen with from inspiring English sources

The English mathematician and inventor Edmund Gunter (1581 1626) devised the earliest known logarithmic rule, known as Gunter's scale or the gunter, which aided seamen with nautical calculations.

Swinburne and its sister speck, Hoffman Island, were created in the 1860's out of sand dredged from the harbor, and were used to quarantine immigrants and seamen with contagious diseases.

With three thousand officers shunted off to wholesome galleries there still will remain 45,000 ordinary seamen with no magazine to guide them, and all Riverside Drive to stroll on.

White riots ensued against Jews (two years after the British liberation of Belsen); followed by a pogrom of deportations of Chinese and west African seamen, with "colonial clubs" attacked during serious fighting between white and blacks across Liverpool 8, in response to which the police removed "the problem" – the blacks.

Any infraction was dealt with harshly and he was renowned for treating both officers and seamen with the same harsh discipline.

Britain, by contrast, was at a high state of readiness with a well-organised command structure, but was suffering from a severe shortage of trained seamen with which to man its large navy.

Each room or suite is themed after its own sea captain, and each is decorated uniquely, both with portraits of the seamen and with its own combination of antique and modern furnishings.

As she was the daughter and the wife of boatmen, her empathy for seamen came with the package, he added.

Those officers then revealed their commerce raiding plans to the gathered merchant seamen — and, with promises of pay above usual seamen's wages, induced as many as possible to join.

There was much colonial shipping, especially from New England, whose merchants and seamen traded with England, Africa, and the West Indies; Massachusetts shipbuilders had built more than 700 ships by 1675.

Ford, as he did in "Midway," embraces a moment of vulnerability: the Americans lose not only a military campaign but a much loved colony, which is evoked as a gentle, palm-treed heaven, where officers in Navy whites and grizzled seamen commingle with respectful Filipino helpers.