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The ship was refurbished in 2019 and offers 10 dining options, a full-service Starbucks, and a casino for late-night bonding around the blackjack table with your new shipmates.
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Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 27 May 2024
Many have no grave to call their own, entombed beneath the seas in the arms of their shipmates.
—The Editors, National Review, 27 May 2024
In the meantime, the shipmates waited in a city far from their homes.
—William Wan, Washington Post, 30 Mar. 2024
His shipmates bury him on land, marking his grave with his prosthetic wooden horse leg.
—EW.com, 26 Oct. 2023
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Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 27 May 2024
Many have no grave to call their own, entombed beneath the seas in the arms of their shipmates.
—The Editors, National Review, 27 May 2024
In the meantime, the shipmates waited in a city far from their homes.
—William Wan, Washington Post, 30 Mar. 2024
His shipmates bury him on land, marking his grave with his prosthetic wooden horse leg.
—EW.com, 26 Oct. 2023
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“Shipmate.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shipmate. Accessed 22 Oct. 2024.
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shipmate
noun
ship·mate
-ˌmāt 
: a fellow sailor
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