boatswain's mate

He was shaken out of sleep by the boatswain's mate.

He turned to the boatswain's mate of the watch.

I could not turn my eyes away from the boatswain's mate, climbing slowly down the ship's side.

He thought of sending the boatswain's mate for it; and was ashamed to issue the order.

Halling left the navy while still a boatswain's mate first class.

The boatswain's mate came into the charthouse in a few minutes, dragging his feet.

Then about thirty seconds later a boatswain's mate came just screaming over the speaker.

Buccari heard the boatswain's mate shouting as she ran down the hill.

The boatswain's mate regarded him steadily, giving no indication of his thoughts.

He knows more about seamanship than some chief boatswain's mates."

He later achieved the rank of chief boatswain's mate.

The colloquial form of address for a boatswain's mate is 'Boats'.

"Two dozen it is, sir," said the boatswain's mate in a hollow voice as he walked slowly to the side.

A boatswain's mate who was not a gentleman would have had half the hide off Burkitt's back.

There are also a handful of boatswains and boatswain's mates in literature.

The oldest such rating, still in use today, is that of Boatswain's Mate.

James Morrison was the boatswain's mate on board the Bounty.

Robert Timothy Riley was a man in the traditional pattern of the chief boatswain's mate.

Willie, who had the deck, sent the boatswain's mate to fetch Keefer.

The yellow-shirt aviation boatswain's mate signaled to Woods to taxi.

Paul Cormier, a boatswain's mate first class, pointed to tall pines that line the canal.

He and a boatswain's mate decided to attempt to open the torpedo loading hatch rather than die from the gas.

The boatswain had his own assistant, the guardião (boatswain's mate).

They earn ratings like seaman apprentice or boatswain's mate.

Within a year he had his rate, Boatswain's Mate Third Class.