Midshipman were expected to work on the ship, but were also expected to learn navigation and seamanship.
After a few months learning seamanship as a naval airman, second class, he trained as a pilot.
Students may sail for one or two semesters during which time they learn seamanship and work as crew members while taking high school classes with teachers on board.
He was raised ashore, mostly in Wales, but learned seamanship at 14 when his father got him a job on a cargo vessel.
It meant hanging out with children who would someday be officers, but at least they'd learn seamanship the right way.
He is raped twice by shipmates, but thereafter manages to avoid them, and he enjoys learning military seamanship.
Well, anyway, it takes years to learn seamanship, and both of us are seamen.
Kit had learned seamanship and the management of ships, as well as gaining proficiency in Italian.
You know nothing of the sea and I gather you don't care about learning seamanship, either.
With these men, Berkeley participated in a survey of Newfoundland, learning seamanship, surveying and numerous other skills in the two-year commission.