master mariner
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A third statue, of Cranogwen, the master mariner and poet, will be unveiled in June next year.
From BBC • Dec. 4, 2022
His father, Thomas, was a master mariner who contracted tuberculosis and pleurisy and died when Peter was 7.
From New York Times • Sep. 15, 2022
Later he became a fully qualified British master mariner, and travelled the world, particularly the archipelagoes and peninsulas of South-East Asia, where many of his tales are set.
From Economist • Nov. 2, 2017
There wasn't "much room for maneuvering," said John Konrad, master mariner and founder of GCaptain, a maritime news website.
From Reuters • Oct. 8, 2015
I answered that it was the desire of my heart, but that I must be guided by my father’s wishes, for that he, being himself a master mariner, well knew the nature of the calling.
From The Boy who sailed with Blake by Kingston, William Henry Giles
