Encyclopedia entry: ordinary seaman

Article: SA: Sub named after an ordinary seaman
AAP General News (Australia);  April 30, 1999 ;     303 words ... ... 30-1999 SA: Sub named after an ordinary seaman ADELAIDE, April 30 AAP - Australia ... British history to be named after an ordinary seaman. The second last submarine built ... Class project, it is named after Ordinary Seaman Teddy Sheean who was not decorated ...

Article: SA: Sheean the first sub to be named after ordinary ...
AAP General News (Australia);  May 2, 1999 ;     367 words ... ... Sheean the first sub to be named after ordinary seaman Australia's fifth Collins Class submarine ... British history to be named after an ordinary seaman. The sub's been named after Ordinary Seaman TEDDY SHEEAN, who missed out on a ...

Article: The Ordinary Seaman.(Book Review)
Reviewer's Bookwatch;  August 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ...The Ordinary Seaman Francisco GoldmanAtlantic Monthly Press 841 Broadway, New York ... Sandanista guerrilla, decides to start a new life and signs on as an ordinary seaman on the ship Urus anchored at Brooklyn. Fourteen other Central American ...

Article: Julia Vitullo-Martin.(Summer Reading)(Waterfront: A Journey ...
Commonweal;  June 18, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... discussed reporting with the equally brilliant 1997 fictional account of abandoned crews--Francisco Goldman's The Ordinary Seaman (Atlantic Monthly Press, $32.50, 288 pp.). Based on an actual incident in New York Harbor, Goldman's novel centers ...

Article: Sober Men and True: Sailor Lives in the Royal Navy ...
Albion;  January 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... Sailor Lives in the Royal Navy 1900-1945. Cambridge ... remember that in 1945 the Royal Navy consisted of 1,065 ... civilians who served in the Royal Navy during World War II ... the importance of the ordinary seaman or rating. They regarded ...

Article: UNITED KINGDOM: VETERAN WORLD WAR TWO SUBMARINER VISITS MODERN ...
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  October 1, 2009 ;     549 words ... ... to Devonport by the Royal Navy to honour his wartime ... enormous changes to the Royal Navy since he was last in ... Mr Huckle joined the Royal Navy at age 17 in 1941 ... Pearl Harbour. As an ordinary seaman he served aboard the ...

Article: Victoria Cross heroes: A salute to the bravest Midland men who ...
The Birmingham Post (England);  July 31, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... Walsall. O&D: DSCBoyes, Duncan Midshipman, Royal Navy. Born November 5, 1846, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire ... Cemetery Churchyard. O&D: MCCarless, John Ordinary Seaman, Royal Navy. Born November 11, 1896, Walsall. November 17 ...