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Recent Examples of able seamanOne 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
After a long time, two husky young crewmen leaned down from the heaving deck of 44303, caught me by the arms, and strained to drag me aboard.
Orval C. Johnson,
Outdoor Life,
31 Oct. 2024
Her blockbuster 2014 holiday movie, Unbroken followed Olympian Louis Zamperini turned WWII pilot, who spends a harrowing 47 days in a raft with two fellow crewmen before he’s caught by the Japanese navy and sent to a prisoner-of-war camp.
Kelley has been performing under the stage name Harpy Daniels since 2013 and has performed in drag for their shipmates since at least 2017, while Trump was in office.
Brooke Migdon,
The Hill,
30 Oct. 2024
Many have no grave to call their own, entombed beneath the seas in the arms of their shipmates.
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