Examples of shipmate

• They involved many characters, including parental figures, rivals in love, servants and superiors and a host of minor figures, such as members of royal courts and shipmates.

• More than this, 'even his shipmates knew'.

• He visited the relatives of all his shipmates who lost their lives.

• An enormous amount of our correspondence is concerned with looking after our old comrades and our old shipmates.

• Immediately afterwards some emergency may arise and the ship and his shipmates may be in danger because of his incapacity.

• The engineer officer and the executive officer were the same great friends and shipmates as they are to-day.

• He ought to have stood up for a shipmate.

• The confinement to the ship in such cases is not a punishment but a necessary precaution to protect both those who decline revaccination and their shipmates.

• We used to make it a kind of sporting competition, and the experts who could devise a system of quick coaling earned the gratitude of all their shipmates.

• I have a case here of an old shipmate of mine who had twenty-six years' pensionable service, twenty-three years of which were as a chief petty officer.

• It is very hard to make a man sign a document that he swears he will not give a duty-free cigarette away to a shipmate who is scrubbing the deck.

• These are terrible figures, and they go to show that there must be very many men serving afloat who are carriers of infection among their shipmates.

• In the interest of themselves and their shipmates, however, they are encouraged to learn to swim and all possible instruction is given, both in ships and shore establishments.

• As his nickname suggests, he is a clumsy sailor, known for dropping sharp edged tools from great heights, narrowly missing his shipmates.

• However, his actions saved the lives of two of his shipmates.