ship's articles
Britishplural noun
Example Sentences
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It was a rule on all pirate vessels for the surgeon to be excused from signing the ship's articles.
From The Pirates' Who's Who Giving Particulars Of The Lives and Deaths Of The Pirates And Buccaneers by Gosse, Philip
The Doctor signed on the ship's articles as surgeon, I as purser.
From The Red-Blooded Heroes of the Frontier by Bronson, Edgar Beecher
Whatever the captain does is right, ipso facto, and any opposition to it is wrong on board ship; and every officer and man knows this when he signs the ship's articles.
From Two Years Before the Mast by Dana, Richard Henry
The affidavits read, Wilson, who, all the while, looked as stiff as a poker, solemnly drew forth the ship's articles from their tin case.
From Omoo by Melville, Herman
Not the first time he had clapped eyes upon ship's articles, one could see with half an eye.
From The Blood Ship by Springer, Norman
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