ship's articles
Britishplural noun
Example Sentences
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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
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 Melville, Herman
"Now, then," began Riggs, with pencil poised, "what's your name in the ship's articles?"
From The Devil's Admiral by Moore, Frederick Ferdinand
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
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