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Recent Examples of coxswainThe acting is solid, particularly by Hadley Robinson as Joe’s love interest, Joyce, and Luke Slattery as Bobby Moch, who as the team’s coxswain doesn’t lift an oar but is in charge of navigation and steering.—Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post, 18 Dec. 2023 With the stature of a coxswain at five foot two, Temple is an unlikely counterweight to two armed thugs.—Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 13 Dec. 2023 The smoke was so thick that the coxswain could not see the bow of the ship.—Riley Mellen, New York Times, 15 Aug. 2023 Hauser had been selected by a coxswain to help get other sailors to a ship.—John Kelly, Washington Post, 24 July 2023 See All Example Sentences for coxswain
The Indonesian crewmen earned about $330 per month but did not know how much the North Koreans made.
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Choe Sang-Hun,
New York Times,
24 Feb. 2025
Only two of the crewman were pulled into the other lifeboat that held Minch and his family, and the vessel bobbed in the darkness amid rough weather for 10 hours, experts said.
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Lauren Liebhaber,
Kansas City Star,
11 Mar. 2025
While the crew had been given permission to have a few drinks with guests on the last night of charter, deckhand Culver Bradbury was seemingly overserved.
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Gina Ragusa,
EW.com,
3 Feb. 2025
Below Deck Sailing Yacht fans saw romance blossom for Daisy Kelliher and Keith Allen during season 5 of the Bravo show, with the finale seeing the chief stew and the deckhand sharing a kiss and pledging to meet up on land.
The unique language got its start thanks to a melting pot of inhabitants— Native Americans, English sailors, and pirates from a variety of places—all living together in one isolated location.
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Melissa Locker,
Southern Living,
7 Apr. 2025
The next two were the dodo, whose extinction was facilitated by the arrival of Dutch sailors, who brought various invasive species on their ships, and the thylacine, a marsupial with the face of a fox and the stripes of a zebra.
Captains and seamen alike reaped the benefits of having these scientists on board with them.
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Will McGough,
Forbes.com,
26 Mar. 2025
The captain of a diving boat has been found guilty of seaman’s manslaughter after one of his passengers died tangled up in the propeller, according to federal prosecutors in Florida.
Services available through local or regional adult education programs vary, however all programs provide certain academic programming including digital literacy training, career navigator support.
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Larry Covino,
Hartford Courant,
20 Mar. 2025
Unlike insurance agents and brokers, navigators cannot be paid by insurance companies and don't recommend specific plans or policies to consumers.
For any shipping hub to flourish in the early days of Great Lakes maritime trade, lighthouses were needed to warn mariners of shoals, and welcome boats to critical harbors which still dot the lakes.
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Charles Selle,
Chicago Tribune,
10 Mar. 2025
All Crowley mariners are safe and fully accounted for.
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