How to Use seamanship in a Sentence

seamanship

noun

• The captain shows great seamanship.
• Much the same way a seasoned ship captain like Edward Smith can become the face of heedless seamanship.
  — Eric D. Lawrence, Detroit Free Press, 30 July 2019
• Toward the end of his deep sea career, Romaine Dudley, an old hand who taught seamanship, took Dewey aside.
  — Carl Nolte, San Francisco Chronicle, 31 July 2021
• Such incidents are risky and violate the rules of the road for seamanship, Navy officials said.
  — Gordon Lubold, WSJ, 27 Apr. 2021
• My initial entry onto the FV Pinnacle was not one to inspire confidence in the seamanship of this reporter.
  — Hal Bernton, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Apr. 2022
• The incident also points out Carman’s seamanship as the engine overheating in April was caused by not opening a valve to provide water to cool the engine.
  — Dave Altimari, courant.com, 14 June 2018
• At Gordonstoun, Philip developed a love of the sea, learning seamanship and boatbuilding as a volunteer coast guardsman at the school.
  — New York Times, 9 Apr. 2021
• In response to this latest collision, the Navy's top admiral last week ordered a fleetwide review of seamanship and training in the Pacific.
  — The Washington Post, OregonLive.com, 27 Aug. 2017
• For all of its political and economic consequences, the expedition’s achievement was in essence a triumph of seamanship over the forces of wind and water.
  — Nathan Perl-Rosenthal, WSJ, 24 Sep. 2021
• And ships on which crews lack basic seamanship certification will probably stay in port until the problems are fixed.
  — Eric Schmitt, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2017
• But several nations still use sailing ships to train recruits in basic seamanship.
  — Brad Lendon, CNN, 25 Oct. 2021
• The Navy's top admiral on Monday ordered a fleetwide review of seamanship and training in the Pacific after the latest collision.
  — Anna Fifield, Alaska Dispatch News, 22 Aug. 2017
• There is Dylan, a thirty-six-year-old Virginia transplant who went to seamanship school in Florida and has worked the full marine circuit on Islesboro for a decade now, and will transport anything anywhere.
  — Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper’s Magazine , 17 Aug. 2022
• Among the myriad issues the Navy blamed for the collisions were fatigue and that bridge crews on the ships failed to plan properly and engaged in unsafe navigational and seamanship practices.
  — Andrew Dyer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 July 2021
• In the June collision, the Fitzgerald's captain was relieved of his command and other sailors were being punished after the Navy found poor seamanship and flaws in keeping watch contributed to the collision.
  — chicagotribune.com, 21 Aug. 2017
• The captain, Jerry Boylan, was long admired here for his care and seamanship of a boat that many locals rode to their open-water scuba certification dives at the Channel Islands.
  — Washington Post, 2 Dec. 2020
• And ships whose crews lack basic seamanship certification will probably stay in port until the problems are fixed.
  — Eric Schmitt, Thomas Gibbons-Neff and Helene Cooper, New York Times, 1 Nov. 2017
• When the Fitzgerald crashed, killing seven sailors, more than a third of the destroyer and cruiser crews in Japan had expired training certificates, including crucial schooling in seamanship.
  — Carl Prine, sandiegouniontribune.com, 14 Sep. 2017
• The Navy last week said the Fitzgerald's captain was being relieved of his command and other sailors were being punished after poor seamanship and flaws in keeping watch were found to have contributed to its collision.
  — Bloomberg.com, 23 Aug. 2017
• The erosion of standards for basic seamanship and the lack of adequate training and proper assessment of crew proficiency must be reversed.
  — Thomas Callender, sandiegouniontribune.com, 13 Sep. 2017
• The Navy found that the officer exhibited poor seamanship and failed to maneuver the Fitzgerald as required, sound a danger signal and contact the Crystal by radio before the collision.
  — Dan Lamothe, Washington Post, 2 Nov. 2017
• Organization, seamanship and technology all would have combined to give the Vikings an upper hand starting in the late 8th century.
  — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 16 June 2021
• Fine-dining and lively entertainment were no substitute for good seamanship, however, and the majesty and tranquility of the Prinzessin Victoria Luise was short-lived.
  — Daryl Austin, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 July 2021
• Dozens of recommendations were laid out in a report regarding how to improve seamanship training, navigation, and use of ship equipment.
  — Jon Brown, Fox News, 10 Jan. 2022
• Since at least the Elizabethan era, English identity had been bound up with English seamanship and imperial expansion.
  — Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 24 Apr. 2017
• Training includes physical fitness, seamanship, firearms, firefighting and shipboard damage control along with lessons in Navy heritage and core values, teamwork and discipline.
  — Alan Nunn, Houston Chronicle, 18 July 2019
• Both camps emphasize boating and seamanship, said Sallie Ransom, senior vice president of financial development for both camps – and a Seafarer alumna herself.
  — Page Leggett, charlotteobserver, 12 July 2018
• Morever, eight of those 11 ships have expired seamanship certifications.
  — Thomas Callender, sandiegouniontribune.com, 13 Sep. 2017
• The Navy's ships require more than a dozen training certifications, including mobility and seamanship and warfare capabilities like ballistic missile defense and surface warfare.
  — Barbara Starr, CNN, 6 Sep. 2017
• In this volume, seamanship, cargo, competition, cooperation, technology, engineering, business, unions, government decisions and international agreements all come together to create a story of the Great Lakes ships and the crews that sailed them.
  — Detroit Free Press, 14 Jan. 2018

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