Translation for '
boatswain' from English to Russian
NOUN | a boatswain | boatswains | |
SYNO | bo's'n | bo'sun | boatswain | ... |
NOUN article.ind sg | pl
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Usage Examples English
- He was warranted to boatswain on March 11, 1902, and promoted to chief boatswain on March 11, 1908. During World War I, he received a temporary promotion to lieutenant on July 1, 1918.
- A boatswain finds himself stranded on an island. Surrounded by starving, poor islanders, the boatswain soon learns that the misery is not caused by the people themselves, but rather by a pack of blood-thirsty pirates.
- The ship's boatswain, if carried, is typically a senior AB.
- A boatswain's mate is a petty officer assisting the boatswain aboard ship.
- Boatswain: In charge of the Deck. The boatswain works in a ship's deck department as the foreman of the deck crew.
- The boatswain is the highest ranking unlicensed (rating) in the deck department.
- The ship's carpenter and boatswain (bosun) were the senior deck ratings and both were typically men of very considerable sea-going experience and personality.
- Originally, on board sailing ships the boatswain was in charge of a ship's anchors, cordage, colours, deck crew and the ship's boats.
- Boatswain Costello was promoted to chief boatswain on 3 March 1899 and retired from the Navy on 24 May 1902. He died on 31 August 1908 in Wilmington, New York.
- in 1916, Gowan was promoted to chief boatswain's mate.
- He was warranted to the rank of boatswain on May 7, 1901 and promoted to chief boatswain on May 7, 1907. During World War I he was promoted to lieutenant on July 1, 1918.
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