ship's articles
Britishplural noun
Example Sentences
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In the mess room the boys found a compact, black-haired, serious-faced young man of unknown nationality reading the ship's articles in an expressionless tone.
From The Cruise of the Dry Dock by T. S. Stribling
Not the first time he had clapped eyes upon ship's articles, one could see with half an eye.
From The Blood Ship by Norman Springer
He then told me that if I would come on board his vessel the following morning, I would find the ship's articles on the cabin transom.
From Omoo by Herman Melville
As a matter of form, it will be well for you to remind every one returning in the ship of the terms of the ship's articles.
From South with Scott by Edward Ratcliffe Garth Russell Evans, Baron Mountevans
He was signed on the ship's articles as boatswain, but really he was intended to act as second mate, keeping the captain's watch and doing the ordinary duties of a second officer.
From The Shellback's Progress In the Nineteenth Century by Walter Runciman
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