seaman

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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

All told, 89 merchant vessels and more than 2,700 Allied seaman perished in the Arctic.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 2, 2026

Back outside, with a view of the port and the sunlit open sea, we met a merchant seaman, relaxing on a bench, who told us his son worked for the New York Times.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 25, 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