bluejacket

Example Sentences

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"Isn't war awful, sir?" a bluejacket on the Tuscaloosa asked Captain Daehne as they watched the Columbus blaze.

From Time Magazine Archive

Cumbersome, inefficient bookkeeping will be replaced by a simple pay-record card to be carried by the bluejacket wherever he goes.

From Time Magazine Archive

From a military standpoint this is not long enough to turn out a well-trained soldier or a bluejacket.

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The President tapped the bluejacket on the shoulder and asked: "Where did you get all those battle stars, sailor?"

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Where one man is employed in the merchantman, six or seven crowd in on board of Andrew; and the "bluejacket" is consequently handicapped when he finds himself thus lonely.

From The Log of a Sea-Waif Being Recollections of the First Four Years of My Sea Life by Bullen, Frank T.