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Seamen (2 yrs experience)
Ordinary Seamen (some exp)
Landsmen (pressganged) 1
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acquired by
impressment (a
common method of
recruitment from c. 1700–1815).
Landsmen were
usually between the ages of 16 and 35,
while seasoned sailors (who...
- essential.
Potential crewmen with no
experience were
called "
landsmen". From 1740,
landsmen were
legally exempt from impressment, but this was on occasion...
- the knot was so-called
because it is "the
natural knot tied by
women or
landsmen". When
attempting to tie a reef knot (square knot), it is easy to produce...
- 1962
Billboard Hot 100
chart and No. 4 on the Easy
Listening chart. The
Landsmen released the song in 1961 as a 45 rpm
single on Arvee. Peter, Paul and...
- a
particular area of the ship.
Grouped among the
watches were also the
landsmen,
considered the
absolute lowest rank in the
Royal Navy and ****igned to...
- 200 "medals of honor," "to be
bestowed upon such
petty officers, seamen,
landsmen, and
marines as
shall most
distinguish themselves by
their gallantry in...
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offered high cash
bounties to
inexperienced volunteers (mostly
inexperienced landsmen) and
created resentment among the
regular seamen, who,
despite their experience...
- (Laws K35) 1901. "My
Ducksie Has Fled", "Gold Watch" (Laws K41) 1902. "Ye
Landsmen and Ye
Seamen Bold", "Sailor's Hornpipe" (Laws K42) 1903. "Jack Sheppard"...
- "Cetology".
Ishmael notes: "Many are the men,
small and great, old and new,
landsmen and seamen, who have at
large or in little,
written of the whale. Run over...
