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How to use seamanship in a sentence

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Daniel Defoe was knowledgeable and proficient in seamanship, he understood the workings of a ship and the skills required for its operation.
The sinking may have been a result of overloading, poor seamanship or both.
There are plenty of hands-on activities, covering all aspects of seamanship, including navigation, weather forecasting and ship-handling.
Other state-supported institutions provide advanced training in nursing, engineering, commerce, and seamanship.
His lack of experience and seamanship, coupled with that outlandish ego, made him a terrible leader.
In all his readings of seamanship and knots he had never found himself moved to tears, unless from boredom.
Getting a good start was imperative to finish in the top 10 and this meant some cunning seamanship around the start boat to ensure a clean start.
On board were up to 130 cadets getting a general education as well as learning seamanship from the 20 staff.
It was during Frederik's tutorial on seamanship that Claire delivered the surprising news.
Furthermore, this glimpse of history is not a familiar one to any but a most dedicated student of history or seamanship.
They had a rubber duck on the water within minutes, but it took more than half-an-hour and exceptional seamanship to reach the Du Toits.
Still, Walker wondered why a boy with so little training in seamanship had stolen away to sea.
Military drill and discipline, as well as seamanship are still part of the book.
Training needs were outlined within the context of the significant loss of indigenous seamanship knowledge and skills.
Both appreciate the finer points of ship construction, seamanship and gun technology.
This negligent turn violated every notion of good seamanship and was the final cause of the collision.
According to good seamanship the sailors have to enter the masts daily to furl, unfurl or pack the sails.
The town council has in turn appealed to the seamanship of the Wootton Bassett Sea Cadets who have agreed to launch one of their boats to row the raiding party across.
Good seamanship includes verifying a vessel's stability to determine, inter alia, how it will react to various external forces.
Recommendation: At all times rescue area should be approached using principles of good seamanship.
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Examples from Classical Literature
In ancient times the jollies, or Royal Marines, were the butts of the sailors, from their ignorance of seamanship.
As everyone familiar with the sea is aware, the seamanship of the square-rigged vessel and of the fore-and-aft is very different.
I told you she was unsinkable, if only handled in accordance with the new seamanship.
It required all the captain's seamanship, and the efforts of all the crew, to withstand it.
It had been a tremendous feat of seamanship and bade fair to be successful.
Were we half as good as he is, in other matters, we might be better than we are in seamanship.
I had been so absorbed in watching his seamanship, that I had not been thinking about the stranger.
They have been obliged to add gunnery to their knowledge of seamanship and navigation.
Once trapped, it was said, German seamanship and surprise tactics had done the rest.
Luckily, too, or else there would have been more shoddy reputations for first-rate seamanship.
In spite of his seamanship, the caravel was wrecked on the island of Cuba.
They were to be composed only of those acquainted with seamanship.
Evidently they thought they were witnessing an exhibition of poor seamanship, and they yelled their warnings to the tug to reduce speed and throw the helm hard to port.
As there is no motive for concealment, I am permitted to use them, and accordingly send you a transcript, simply omitting technical details of seamanship and supercargo.
Nothing know I of seamanship, save what one could not avoid picking up on the round voyage of the Lady Jermyn, never to be completed on this globe.
It was the moment when they had passed successfully their first examination and left the seamanship Examiner with the little precious slip of blue paper in their hands.
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