But a deckhand who was cleaning some mops in the water had already rescued the umbrella.
I've been deckhand and seaman and mate on more vessels than I can count—in every part of the uncivilized world.
It was after five in the morning when the deckhands tried to get Craig to go down to his room.
The packet swept past us, giving me a good deal the same glimpse into a different sort of life that a deckhand on a freighter has when he gazes at a liner ablaze with lights and echoing with music.
When I backed out into the river the other night I had to leave four of my best deckhands either dead or wounded on the bank.
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Meanwhile, the wives of the skippers and the deckhands wait anxiously at home.
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There is an illusion in the country that the ordinarydeckhandin the fishing industry is a fabulously wealthy worker.
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If it is not added to the gross earnings of the vessel, then only the owners benefit and deckhands, skippers and mates get nothing.
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Skippers have fewer vessels to command and deckhands are on the dole.
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This affects not only deckhands but dockers as well.
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Deckhandlearners should not be permitted to make their first trip on a distant water side trawler in winter.
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He saw the secretaries of several of the skippers' associations, the enginemen's union, the deckhands' and trimmers' union, as well as several owners.
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The position was not as simple as that, but it was widely believed to be the case amongst the deckhands.
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We have first-class skippers, first-class boatswains and first-class deckhands.
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To be a competentdeckhand, a man has to be a fairly good sailor.
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If it is added to the gross earnings of the vessel, then the deckhands, skippers and mates receive an increase in their remuneration.
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There is suspicion between owners and deckhands.
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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.
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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.
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The deckhands cannot do this.
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