ship's articles
Britishplural noun
Example Sentences
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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
"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
It was a rule on all pirate vessels for the surgeon to be excused from signing the ship's articles.
From The Pirates' Who's Who Giving Particulars Of The Lives and Deaths Of The Pirates And Buccaneers by Gosse, Philip
And yet, by the injustice of fate, on the ship’s articles I was their equal.
From A Collection of Stories by London, Jack
In his hand he held the ship's articles.
From The Blood Ship by Springer, Norman
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