seaman
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It turns out the seaman had been running laps on a warship in the Charles de Gaulle’s carrier group.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026
Shelley was a seaman gunner on the destroyer HMS Milne on D-Day and guarded troops going ashore during the Normandy landings in June 1944.
From BBC ● Mar. 31, 2026
"We don't have enough water on board right now. We got food a few days back," said one Indian seaman stuck in a small refuelling boat off Iraq, within sight of the Iranian shore.
From Barron's ● Mar. 20, 2026
In 1985, as the Year of the Pacific approached, the ship’s captain was Peter Willcox, a lifelong seaman and conscientious objector from Vietnam who’d devoted his career to environmental action on the oceans.
From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2025
By then, Ona had made plans to marry John Staines, a free black man and merchant seaman.
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
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But the FAA expressly excludes from arbitration “contracts of employment of seamen, railroad employees, or any other class of workers engaged in foreign or interstate commerce.”
From Slate ● Jun. 3, 2026
The Journal spoke to more than a dozen seamen held in the gulf, who described deteriorating conditions tipping into a humanitarian crisis.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 9, 2026
But like many seamen, he says he needed the work.
From BBC ● Feb. 10, 2026
The researchers have estimated that the proportion of lung cancers related to onboard asbestos exposure were of the order of 27 per cent in Australian seamen and 12 per cent in British seamen.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 14, 2023
The rest of the crew was made up of able seamen accustomed to the harsh weather of the North Sea, two doctors, a handful of university scientists, officers, a carpenter, and a cook.
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
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