seamen

Guam doesn't seem like it has a lot of healthcare support for a full-aircraft carrier of irradiated seamen.

They also forgot the part where the able seamen manning those ships aren't exactly living the high lives themselves.

Given those effects, it doesn't seem likely to have increased the number of US merchant seamen either.

The seamen were usually thrilled to show us around their massive ships and would often invite us to a barbecue.

The other crew members are just random seamen hired from the usual poor countries so jailing them would be pointless.

Additionally, he cataloged the deaths of nearly 100 seamen and serious injury of about 250 others.

The point being of course that seamen often need to tie knots rapidly, in complete darkness or in less than convenient positions.

His navy is intimidated by a nation without active seamen!

And narcotraffickers aren't exactly known for being experienced seamen.

The crews were well trained (and included many former British navy able seamen, pressed from American merchantmen) but it was the material advantages that swayed these combats.

These seamen really didn't know what they were doing.

My 12th grade lit teacher would likely note that we was rather squeezing seamen, and then leap into another lecture on Melville's literary craftiness.

BTW don't you think that it's a little awkward that in modern times "pirates", which were people that'd literally kill seamen for profit, are considered a fun Halloween theme for children?

Irrespective of whether it is "strategy" or "tactics", Nelson's key insightful diagnosis, according to the book, was that his seamen were more experienced at firing cannons in choppy waters than the more numerous Spanish/French Armada.