ship's articles

British  

plural noun

1. a type of contract by which sailors agree to the conditions, payment, etc, for the ship in which they are going to work

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Example Sentences

But evidently, in the writer's mind, the only important intelligence was to the effect that his captain had, on the very day of writing, entered him regularly on the ship's articles as Ordinary Seaman.

From Typhoon by Conrad, Joseph

"Is this your handwriting on the ship's articles, and in the store-room account-book?"

From Harper's Young People, April 6, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly by Various

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 Doctor signed on the ship's articles as surgeon, I as purser.

From The Red-Blooded Heroes of the Frontier by Bronson, Edgar Beecher

At any rate, he once more signed a ship's articles, and on January 1, 1841, sailed from New Bedford harbour in the whaler Acushnet, bound for the Pacific Ocean and the sperm fishery.

From Typee by Stedman, Arthur