sea rover

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Breezy, blunt Cap Rieber, an office-bound sea rover who feels equally at home in any of the world's ports, was boss of Texas' tanker fleet, and made a specialty of pushing sales of Texaco abroad.

From Time Magazine Archive

In 1851 Lennox-Boyd's great uncle, Benjamin Boyd, a wealthy London broker turned sea rover, rowed off from his yacht Wanderer for a spot of hunting on one of the Solomon Islands.

From Time Magazine Archive

"But if Blackbeard searches for the wreck, or if some of those pirates rejoin him, Joe——" "But me no more buts," snapped the sea rover.

From Blackbeard: Buccaneer by Schoonover, Frank Earle

They would never be happy under the tyrannical rule of the bold sea rover.

From The Thirsty Sword by Leighton, Robert

Another bold sea rover of Portugal sailed four hundred miles from land, where he picked up a strangely carved paddle and several pieces of wood of a sort not to be found in Europe.

From Discoverers and Explorers by Shaw, Edward R. (Edward Richard)