Sentence examples for to seamen from inspiring English sources
The boat entered an area known to seamen as the Creek.
The strong equatorial currents were familiar to seamen in the days of sail.
Through this business he could purchase clothes taken from sailors in barter for drink and then resell them to seamen about to embark.
Nearby, the ground floor of what used to be the Missions to Seamen building is now a restaurant with the curiously apt name of "Marcel".
The first of these account for a heterogeneous population and the second for services designed to cater to seamen and merchants.
Flying Dutchman, in European maritime legend, spectre ship doomed to sail forever; its appearance to seamen is believed to signal imminent disaster.
One or two were left open to allow seamen to return to their ships, but these were watched all night.
The chaplains send vans to take seamen to the Jersey Gardens Mall in Elizabeth or back to the center, where they can have a shower, play pool or Ping-Pong, eat a cafeteria meal, visit the chapel, work out in the gym or play basketball.
When he learned that more sailors died from drowning -- because they couldn't swim -- than from enemy fire, he was allowed to implement new safety guidelines and a training program to teach seamen how to stay alive in the water.
A coast guard may also be responsible for the maintenance of lighthouses, buoys, and other navigational aids and for administering emergency aid to merchant seamen and to victims of natural disasters, such as floods and hurricanes.
Nearby Nags Head got its name, according to tradition, because unscrupulous robber-settlers tied lanterns to their horses' necks and drove them along the coast to lure unsuspecting seamen to run aground on the reefs.
