Examples of seaman

• The peers immediately objected to such tactics and ejected the seamen.

• A gestation of 15 years of continued interest and agonising over the whereabouts of the missing seamen ensured an emotional investment in the expedition.

• We may guess that he had access to external income, perhaps from work abroad or employment as a seaman.

• And crucially all three died, as other seamen had and continued to do so, doing their duty.

• In just two cases were the husbands' professions recorded : one was a seaman and the other was a shoemaker.

• Following the pattern of explorers and seamen he also collected natural history specimens.

• Norwegian seamen were slightly higher paid, but there might also have been a shortage in labour supply.

• Both the trade unions and the many seamen in the dockyards tried to resist, but they were poorly armed and were eventually forced to surrender.