Examples of able seaman in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web One able seaman, a 39-year-old man named Arokiyam, lives in the village of Alanthalai, an hour south of Tuticorin. — Samanth Subramanian, Quartz, 16 June 2021 Within a week, Brito D'Silva, an able seaman (a senior member of the deck on crew), died of an unspecified illness. — Saudamini Jain, CNN, 20 Mar. 2021 The transcript of these conversations, as well as (one-sided) electronic communications among the captain, mates, engineers, able seamen and people ashore, runs to 500 pages. — Douglas Preston, New York Times, 1 May 2018

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