ship's articles
Britishplural noun
Example Sentences
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Furthermore, he never signed a ship's articles unless he thought there was considerable money in it somewhere.
From The Mutineers by Hawes, Charles Boardman
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 Runciman, Walter
And yet, by the injustice of fate, on the ship’s articles I was their equal.
From A Collection of Stories by London, Jack
I want to be on the ship's articles as quartermaster, that's all—that's all.
From The Pirate Shark by Arting, Fred J.
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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