seaman
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"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
All told, 89 merchant vessels and more than 2,700 Allied seaman perished in the Arctic.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 2, 2026
His performance as the naïve young seaman, hanged for killing an officer in self-defence, won him an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor and a Golden Globe for Best Newcomer.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2025
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
The master cursed and shouted that he would not: “A wizard aboard, and I the best seaman of the Trade, and this the handiest ship I ever sailed—turn back?”
From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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
In 2025 the number had ballooned to 410, with 6,223 merchant seamen falling victim.
From BBC ● Feb. 8, 2026
The captains of such ships were the rock stars of their day, consummate seamen who risked their lives on the open oceans for wealth and fame.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 8, 2025
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
Nat remembered all the brawny swaggering seamen who had crowded the chandlery.
From "Carry On, Mr. Bowditch" by Jean Lee Latham
