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Recent Examples of crewmanOnly 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.—Lauren Liebhaber, Kansas City Star, 11 Mar. 2025 Players including Aliyah Boston and Nneka Ogwumike—also featured in the Adidas shoot—are mingling, while crewmen move around screens and scaffolding.—Nick Remsen, Vogue, 1 Feb. 2025 Clark said the Naval Special Warfare Command reported 1,168 cases of acute gastrointestinal illnesses, such as nausea, diarrhea and vomiting, among Navy SEAL and Special Warfare Combat crewman candidates at the Coronado base from January 2019 to May 2023.—Tammy Murga The San Diego Union-Tribune (tns), arkansasonline.com, 17 Feb. 2025 In 1990, Bryant married Charlie Hobson Dry, an Oklahoma native and former NASA test crewman.—Anita Gates, Orlando Sentinel, 10 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for crewman
Glimpses of Magnús alone in his cabin on the boat, or his prickly interactions with insensitively prying shipmates, quietly reveal his gnawing sense of solitude.
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David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
3 Sep. 2019
One of the Indonesian shipmates recalled a time when a North Korean colleague was finally allowed to go home.
Government as a protector of health goes way back
The U.S. public health service got its start in the 1700s service cared for seamen who were sick or injured.
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Selena Simmons-Duffin,
NPR,
13 May 2025
Lunde had joined the merchant fleet as a seaman in 1934.
Sirens were known for their enchanting voices who lured sailors to their ultimate demise.
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Francesca Gariano,
People.com,
24 May 2025
This past week, a tragic accident happened when the Mexican Navy’s training ship, Cuauhtémoc, crashed into the Brooklyn Bridge, claiming the lives of a young naval cadet and a sailor while also leaving others seriously injured.
This date is also supported by a notice to mariners, but it should be taken as notional rather than something to be confident in.
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ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
9 May 2025
The high costs that come with building a military and commercial vessel have been a major barrier—alongside a shortage of mariners—in getting the U.S. shipbuilding industry back up to speed with its Chinese counterparts.
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