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Born in Salem, Mass., in 1803, Driver ran away from home at 13 to become a cabin boy on a ship.
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Meredith Kile, People.com, 4 July 2025
She’s accompanied by a chaperone/warder, Loti (Céline Menville), a Frenchwoman who has a mean way with a dagger, and cabin boy Blaster (Kayden Price).
—Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2025
This French girl is said to have disguised herself as a cabin boy to sail with her beloved to North America.
—Jack Schnedler, Arkansas Online, 19 May 2025
The young man probably arrived from England in the 1630s as a cabin boy or an indentured servant.
—Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Dec. 2023
One of the cabin boys who worked by the fishing docks told my sister about a handy trick to save on quarters during pinball play.
—Philip Potempa, Chicago Tribune, 28 June 2023
One day, captured by the wicked pirate Peg Leg Olle, Mo bumps into a resourceful young cabin boy, Hannes, and his pet bird.
—Leo Barraclough, Variety, 30 May 2023
Instead, the show blends adventure and real reverence, sometimes to beautiful effect and sometimes to jarring contrast, as when the shipwreck hunters stroll down a gorgeous beach while discussing a young cabin boy who died in a wreck 100 years before.
—Margaret Lyons, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2022
The mainmast is broken, the cabin boy is on deck, there are twelve passengers aboard, the wind is blowing Northeast, the clock points to a quarter past three in the afternoon.
—Richard Malena, Popular Mechanics, 26 Dec. 2022
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Meredith Kile, People.com, 4 July 2025
She’s accompanied by a chaperone/warder, Loti (Céline Menville), a Frenchwoman who has a mean way with a dagger, and cabin boy Blaster (Kayden Price).
—Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2025
This French girl is said to have disguised herself as a cabin boy to sail with her beloved to North America.
—Jack Schnedler, Arkansas Online, 19 May 2025
The young man probably arrived from England in the 1630s as a cabin boy or an indentured servant.
—Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Dec. 2023
One of the cabin boys who worked by the fishing docks told my sister about a handy trick to save on quarters during pinball play.
—Philip Potempa, Chicago Tribune, 28 June 2023
One day, captured by the wicked pirate Peg Leg Olle, Mo bumps into a resourceful young cabin boy, Hannes, and his pet bird.
—Leo Barraclough, Variety, 30 May 2023
Instead, the show blends adventure and real reverence, sometimes to beautiful effect and sometimes to jarring contrast, as when the shipwreck hunters stroll down a gorgeous beach while discussing a young cabin boy who died in a wreck 100 years before.
—Margaret Lyons, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2022
The mainmast is broken, the cabin boy is on deck, there are twelve passengers aboard, the wind is blowing Northeast, the clock points to a quarter past three in the afternoon.
—Richard Malena, Popular Mechanics, 26 Dec. 2022
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“Cabin boy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cabin%20boy. Accessed 11 Jul. 2025.
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