0 a person, usually unskilled, who works on a ship, but who does not serve the passengers or work in the engine room --
The deckhands cannot do this.
But although complicated, the general opinion among the deckhands was that the distant water fleet subsidy was coming into this determination and that the middle water fleet subsidy was not.
The weekly requirements for a number of weeks ahead amount to 75 deckhands, 25 firemen and 10 cooks, and to meet those requirements an occasional man has been forthcoming.
There is suspicion between owners and deckhands.
If it is added to the gross earnings of the vessel, then the deckhands, skippers and mates receive an increase in their remuneration.
To be a competent deckhand, a man has to be a fairly good sailor.
We have first-class skippers, first-class boatswains and first-class deckhands.
The position was not as simple as that, but it was widely believed to be the case amongst the deckhands.
