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deck hand







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He works as a deck hand, helping to load coal onto river barges.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 29, 2025

The deck hand went onto the deck to close the yacht's windows.

From BBC • May 14, 2025

Chuck Bundrant, 79, an epic figure in North Pacific fisheries who started his career as a deck hand on a crabber and went on to co-found Seattle-based Trident Seafoods, died Oct.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 22, 2021

Two bags, filled with six cans of Planters mixed nuts and seven boxes of K-Cup coffee, were quickly tied on by the Westcott’s deck hand and hoisted aboard the freighter.

From New York Times • Aug. 20, 2016

“Aye, aye, all aboard,” was the response from Fritz’s friend the deck hand, who, with only a red flannel shirt on and a pair of check trousers—very unsailorlike in appearance altogether—stood in the bows.

From Fritz and Eric The Brother Crusoes by Hutcheson, John C. (John Conroy)




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