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
Seyfried St. Louis � For Seaman Carl Fowler, the bluejacket on watch on the destroyer U.S.S.
From Time Magazine Archive
Behind her, one catches a glimpse of the entire U. S. Navy, but especially of one roustabout bluejacket to whom Actor George O'Brien has given his first name and a good characterization.
From Time Magazine Archive
But it takes a lot to make a bluejacket lose his hunger.
From Some Naval Yarns by Hall, Mordaunt
