0 the officer on a ship who is responsible for taking care of the ship's equipment --
Instead of carrying eight men and a boatswain and a carpenter, you may carry eight men and no boatswain and carpenter.
Take the position of boatswains and carpenters in this report.
It may be said that owners, in spite of the regulations, will carry a boatswain and carpenter.
We have first-class skippers, first-class boatswains and first-class deckhands.
Certificate allowance is paid to signal boatswains on the staffs of the schools who hold appointments on the staff.
Take the case of a boatswain who is raised to warrant rank from the lower deck.
I had a patient until recently who had been a boatswain on a sailing ship; he had been retired for 51 years when he died.
The old-fashioned spelling of "boatswain"has now been transformed into"bosun," and that is the spelling given in the dictionary.
