seaman
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"We don't have enough water on board right now. We got food a few days back," said one Indian seaman stuck in a small refuelling boat off Iraq, within sight of the Iranian shore.
From Barron's ● Mar. 20, 2026
Opening the case for the prosecution, Tom Little KC said the trial was about "the entirely avoidable death of a seaman".
From BBC ● Jan. 13, 2026
All told, 89 merchant vessels and more than 2,700 Allied seaman perished in the Arctic.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 2, 2026
In 1985, as the Year of the Pacific approached, the ship’s captain was Peter Willcox, a lifelong seaman and conscientious objector from Vietnam who’d devoted his career to environmental action on the oceans.
From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2025
He signed on as a merchant seaman, and in 1953, when he was nineteen, his ship docked at Norfolk, Virginia.
From "Class Matters" by The New York Times
But the FAA expressly excludes from arbitration “contracts of employment of seamen, railroad employees, or any other class of workers engaged in foreign or interstate commerce.”
From Slate ● Jun. 3, 2026
Whatever the weight, a falling pot always sends seamen scattering; the close calls have been many.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 2026
But like many seamen, he says he needed the work.
From BBC ● Feb. 10, 2026
Officials say another 28 people are unaccounted for but the families of seamen say the number is probably much higher.
From Reuters ● Nov. 17, 2023
Salladhor Saan was a resourceful old pirate, and his crews Were born seamen, fearless in a fight.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
