| Many boats plied to and fro, oared by jolly young watermen who dreamt not of railways and steam-launches. |
| This year's XXL Big Wave Awards will also feature the first enshrinements in the Big Wave Hall of Fame, a tribute to the sport's pioneering watermen. |
| So poor was the harvest of recruits that an appeal was issued to the watermen on the Thames to join up. |
| He was the patron saint of Cortez, as he was also of the Thames watermen. |
| The contemporary guild democracy movement won its greatest successes among London's transport workers, notably the Thames watermen. |
| In the 16th century, Acts of Parliament regulated the watermen and wherrymen working on the tidal Thames between Gravesend and Windsor. |
