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second mate
noun
- the officer of a merchant vessel next in command beneath the first mate.
second mate
noun
- the next in command of a merchant vessel after the first mate Also calledsecond officer
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There was no war then, and he shipped as second-mate on a merchant vessel sailing from Salem.
“Commodore has made a signal that strange vessel is a man-of-war bearing down,” said the second-mate, again entering the cabin.
“Extremely strange, that she does not answer the private signal,” said the colonel to the second-mate.
The senior apprentice, Thompson, was made acting-second mate and would be in charge of the starboard watch.
Wansley, second-mate, was indeed dead to the world in his berth.
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