chief mate

How to use chief mate in a sentence

• As chief mate he had mastered the problems of courses and manoeuvers in the fog along that same route which he must now take.

  Blow The Man Down | Holman Day

• But before the chief mate was half-way down the ladder on his way the wailing voice of the lookout reported disaster.

  Blow The Man Down | Holman Day

• At nineteen he was chief mate of a slaver, a legitimate occupation in his day but one that filled him with disgust.

  South American Fights and Fighters | Cyrus Townsend Brady

• And it was I, the passenger, who sailed her into Kirkcudbright, tho' I had never been more than a chief mate before.

  Richard Carvel, Complete | Winston Churchill

• The chief mate took his stand in the glare of a torch-basket, a coil of rope in his hand, and his men grouped about him.

  Life On The Mississippi, Complete | Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)