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Definition of able seaman in English: able seamannoun eɪb(ə)l ˈsiːmənˌeɪbəl ˈsimən A rank of sailor in the Royal Navy above ordinary seaman and below leading seaman. Example sentencesExamples - Holbrook thereby won the Trade's first Victoria Cross, while the ship's company shared £3,500 prize bounty: Holbrook himself took £601 10s 2d, and each able seaman received £120 6s 1d.
- Even with ships covered by labour agreements, Parsons says an able seaman's contract includes over 100 hours of overtime per month, at less than a quarter of the wage a Canadian would make.
- Among them was 81-year-old Calpin, who served as an able seaman with the Royal Navy during the Normandy landings.
- Mr Reynolds, an able seaman from 1944 to 1946 in corvettes and LST 3035, came from Adelaide to attend the reunion.
- Luckily, an able seaman next to me snatched the grenade and threw it into the sea.
- Ten - among them an able seaman from Aberdeen - were captured and tortured.
- He was called to the Bar in 1958 after two years in the Royal Navy, where he was an able seaman, and a period as a factory inspector.
- It resulted from the National Government's proposal for cuts in naval pay, in response to Britain's financial crisis: 7 per cent for admirals, 13.6 per cent for unmarried able seamen.
- In fifty-odd years as a deckhand, stock tender, able seaman, and now captain, I became increasingly alarmed by the growth in plastic debris I was seeing.
- An able seaman on the Clyde earns about £13,000 while an able seaman in the Western Isles earns about £20,000.
- He said elements of mathematics and science would be combined in the displays, hopefully leading to more knowledgeable students and enthusiastic potential submariners, who nowadays needed to be skilled artisans, not just able seamen.
- Mr Couzens, an able seaman, was part of the first wave of boats which slipped out of harbour shortly after midnight on June 6, 1944, part of the biggest naval force in history.
- Alongside them is Monkman, who as an able seaman aboard HMS Tyler helped safely escort convoys of troops across the English Channel.
- Mr Walton, who at the time of the tragedy was an able seaman, said: ‘We did not have anything to row with.’
- I sailed into Auckland as an able seaman aboard the Australian Navy's flagship, HMAS ‘Australia’.
- And it was at Santa Cruz that death very nearly visited Challenger again: One of the boys fell from the rigging, a height of almost 40 feet into the sea, and but for the quick action of an able seaman he would surely have drowned.
- Mr Waterworth was an 18-year-old able seaman when he was depth-charged aboard HMS Strongbow at Penang, in the Strait of Malacca, off Malaya.
- Nothing daunted, I signed up in August 2001 as an able seaman and historical adviser for a BBC TV re-enactment of the first voyage of Captain Cook from Cairns to Indonesia.
- He served in the navy for five years, and was described by his senior naval commanders as a superior able seaman.
- I will not say his name, because the Minister knows that in 2000 I brought to his attention a case about an able seaman, who to this day I still believe was not looked after by the military.
Definition of able seaman in US English: able seamannounˌābəl ˈsēmənˌeɪbəl ˈsimən An able-bodied seaman. Example sentencesExamples - Even with ships covered by labour agreements, Parsons says an able seaman's contract includes over 100 hours of overtime per month, at less than a quarter of the wage a Canadian would make.
- Mr Couzens, an able seaman, was part of the first wave of boats which slipped out of harbour shortly after midnight on June 6, 1944, part of the biggest naval force in history.
- Nothing daunted, I signed up in August 2001 as an able seaman and historical adviser for a BBC TV re-enactment of the first voyage of Captain Cook from Cairns to Indonesia.
- An able seaman on the Clyde earns about £13,000 while an able seaman in the Western Isles earns about £20,000.
- I sailed into Auckland as an able seaman aboard the Australian Navy's flagship, HMAS ‘Australia’.
- Holbrook thereby won the Trade's first Victoria Cross, while the ship's company shared £3,500 prize bounty: Holbrook himself took £601 10s 2d, and each able seaman received £120 6s 1d.
- He served in the navy for five years, and was described by his senior naval commanders as a superior able seaman.
- Mr Reynolds, an able seaman from 1944 to 1946 in corvettes and LST 3035, came from Adelaide to attend the reunion.
- Among them was 81-year-old Calpin, who served as an able seaman with the Royal Navy during the Normandy landings.
- Mr Walton, who at the time of the tragedy was an able seaman, said: ‘We did not have anything to row with.’
- Alongside them is Monkman, who as an able seaman aboard HMS Tyler helped safely escort convoys of troops across the English Channel.
- It resulted from the National Government's proposal for cuts in naval pay, in response to Britain's financial crisis: 7 per cent for admirals, 13.6 per cent for unmarried able seamen.
- He was called to the Bar in 1958 after two years in the Royal Navy, where he was an able seaman, and a period as a factory inspector.
- He said elements of mathematics and science would be combined in the displays, hopefully leading to more knowledgeable students and enthusiastic potential submariners, who nowadays needed to be skilled artisans, not just able seamen.
- Luckily, an able seaman next to me snatched the grenade and threw it into the sea.
- Ten - among them an able seaman from Aberdeen - were captured and tortured.
- And it was at Santa Cruz that death very nearly visited Challenger again: One of the boys fell from the rigging, a height of almost 40 feet into the sea, and but for the quick action of an able seaman he would surely have drowned.
- In fifty-odd years as a deckhand, stock tender, able seaman, and now captain, I became increasingly alarmed by the growth in plastic debris I was seeing.
- I will not say his name, because the Minister knows that in 2000 I brought to his attention a case about an able seaman, who to this day I still believe was not looked after by the military.
- Mr Waterworth was an 18-year-old able seaman when he was depth-charged aboard HMS Strongbow at Penang, in the Strait of Malacca, off Malaya.
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