Boatswain
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A boatswain is the most senior rate of the deck department and is responsible for the components of a ship's hull. The boatswain supervises the other members of the ship's deck department and typicall
The boatswain aboard a US merchant ship stands cargo watch as freight is lowered into an open hatch, c. 1981
c. 1820 illustration of a Royal Navy boatswain
Boatswain of Felix von Luckner's yacht Seeteufel, smoking a pipe and hosing the vessel's deck
Henri 'the Boatswain' Etiévant's mugshot by Alphonse Bertillon (Anthropometric File of Anarchists - 1894)
The Merchant Navy is the collective name given to British civilian ships and the officers and ratings that man them. Merchant Navy vessels mostly fly the Red Ensign and the ships and ship's companies'
Members of the ship's company of HMS Castle Harbour, assigned to the Royal Naval Dockyard as the Examination Service vessel (that inspected merchant ships). Crew members included seafarers from the Merchant Navy. HMS Castle Harbour would later be sunk by a German submarine while being delivered to the Mediterranean by a Merchant Navy crew
Second World War poster highlighting wartime dangers that the Merchant Navy faced
Sailors on board the merchant ship Empire Unity during World War II