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4 unusual facts about seaman


Frederick IX of Denmark

The gun carriage was pulled by 48 seamen and was escorted by honor guards from the Danish Army, Air Force, and Navy, as well as honor guards from France, Sweden, United Kingdom, and the United States.

Once in Roskilde, the coffin was pulled through the city by a group of seamen to Roskilde Cathedral where the final ceremony took place.

Levitz Furniture

The chain continued to expand in 2005, when they acquired Seaman's Furniture and Huffman Koos stores after bankruptcy.

Seaman's Hospital

Seaman's Hospital was originally opened by Dr Young, a surgeon of the Honourable East India Company in 1843 during the First Opium War.


Alabama Cooperative Extension System

Seaman Ashael Knapp (1831-1911) was a Union College graduate, Phi Beta Kappa member, physician, college instructor, and administrator, who took up farming late in life, moving to Iowa to raise general crops and livestock.

Alfred Bulltop Stormalong

The name of Stormalong first appeared in a cycle of sea shanties that Stan Hugill, in his Sea Shanties of the Seven Seas, traces back to African-American folk songs of the 1830s and '40s. Bearing names like "Mister Stormalong", "Way Stormalong John", and "Yankee John, Stormalong", these sailors' work songs generally featured praise for a deceased seaman and for his benevolent son.

Ambroise Louis Garneray

At thirteen, he joined the Navy as a seaman, encouraged by his cousin, Beaulieu-Leloup, commander of the frigate Forte ("the Stout one").

Arthur Batchelor

:Arthur Batchelor may also refer to the Able Seaman involved in the 2007 Iranian seizure of Royal Navy personnel.

Arthur Sinodinos

His father was a member of the left-aligned Seaman's Union that, during Sinodinos' early years, was campaigning against the United States intervention in Vietnam.

Atlanta Flames

The Seaman brothers, Daryl and Byron, had made an offer of $14 million while the City of Calgary prepared to build a new arena for the team.

Chittagong Commonwealth War Cemetery

There are a further 20 Foreign National burials, 1 being a seaman of the Dutch Navy and 19 Japanese soldiers, 1 of which is unidentified.

Chris Vacher

Brought up near Axminster on the Somerset-Devon border, Vacher attended Sherborne School and the Britannia Royal Naval College, Dartmouth (in the same year as Prince Charles) before joining the Navy in 1969 as a seaman officer.

Colin Grazier

Able Seaman Colin Grazier, GC was posthumously awarded the George Cross for the "outstanding bravery and steadfast devotion to duty in the face of danger" which he displayed on 30 October 1942 in action in the eastern Mediterranean when capturing codebooks vital for the breaking of the German naval "Shark" Enigma cipher from the sinking U-559.

Dalyup River

The first European to discover the river was Surveyor General John Septimus Roe in 1848 who named it the Gore River after one of Captain James Cook's crew from the Endeavour, Lieutenant John Gore.

Frederick T. Weber

During the ensuing winter, Seaman 2d Class Weber successfully completed elimination flight training at the Naval Reserve Aviation Base, Kansas City, Kansas; and, on 27 July 1939, he was appointed an aviation cadet in the Naval Reserve.

Heinrich Zimmermann

He spent time working at this in Geneva, Lyons and Paris before he arrived in London in 1776 where, after a short period of working in a sugar refinery, he joined HMS Discovery as an able seaman on 12 March of that year for James Cook's third voyage to the Pacific.

Henry J. Seaman

Seaman was elected as the candidate of the American Party to the Twenty-ninth Congress (March 4, 1845-March 3, 1847).

Herbert Trench

In 1908 a Dramatic Symphony, opus 51, written by Joseph Holbrooke setting Trench's poem Apollo and the Seaman was performed, under Thomas Beecham.

Ingvald Haugen

Haugen started his career barely 14 years old as fisherman (1908 – 1914) and seaman until he was recruited as full-time Union Officer in 1919, first at the NSU Haugesund branch before being transferred to the NSU Cardiff branch office in United Kingdom the year after.

Jacob Mossel

When he was 15 he left as an able-bodied seaman aboard a Fluyt (a type of Dutch sailing cargo vessel) called de Haringthuyn, bound for the Indies.

John Catherwood

John Hugh Catherwood (1888–1930), American seaman awarded the Medal of Honor

Juan M. Garcia III

On the morning after the election, Seaman had led by a narrow 24 votes, as there were three precincts in San Patricio still pending counts.

Kudirka

Simonas Kudirka seaman, known for defecting from the USSR by jumping to the USCGC Vigilant, and who was portrayed in the TV movie The Defection of Simas Kudirka.

Louis Fred Pfeifer

Lieutenant J.S. McKean, with a rope around his waist, was next into the sail room, followed by Private Louis F. Thies (Pfiefer) and Seaman Thomas Cahey.

Maignan Point

It was first charted by the Third French Antarctic Expedition, 1903–05, and named by Jean-Baptiste Charcot for F. Maignan, a seaman of the Français who lost his life in a ship accident shortly after the expedition's departure from Le Havre.

Mary Jane Seaman

Mary Jane Seaman was an actress who played in the provinces before playing Mrs Wellington de Boots in Joseph Stirling Coyne's comedy Everybody's Friend at the Theatre Royal, Manchester in October 1859.

Michael Gladis

He also provided the voice and MotionScan of Dudley Lynch in the game L.A. Noire and was Senior Seaman Yevgeny Borzenkov in the 2002 film K19: The Widowmaker.

Military slang

The 1944 U.S. Army animated shorts Three Brothers and Private Snafu Presents Seaman Tarfu In The Navy (both directed by Friz Freleng), feature the characters Private Snafu, Private Fubar, and Seaman Tarfu.

Neil Rutherford

Also killed by gunshot wounds were the hotel owner, Linda Simcox (52); ex merchant seaman Johnny Gore Green (55), an antique dealer from Bay City, Texas; Simcox's daughter, Lorna (24); and her husband, Alastair McIntyre (55).

Owen Seaman

It was during his tenure there that A. A. Milne, author of the Winnie-the-Pooh stories, worked as his assistant; it is thought that Seaman's dour disposition may have been the inspiration behind the gloomy character of Eeyore.

Peter Butler

Peter Michael Butler (1901–1995), New Zealand seaman, trade unionist, communist and local politician

Phleger Estate

Coppinger was a British seaman who deserted his ship in San Francisco in 1835 but he went on to support Governor Alvarado's revolt against the Mexico-installed Governor Gutiérrez in Monterey in 1836.

Portobello, Edinburgh

In 1742 a cottage was built on what is now the High Street (close to the junction with what is now Brighton Place) by a seaman by the name of George Hamilton, who had served under Admiral Edward Vernon during the 1739 capture of Porto Bello, Panama, meaning literally "beautiful port or harbour", and who named the cottage Portobello Hut in honour of that victory.

Robert Seaman

Robert Livingston Seaman (1822 – March 11, 1904) was an American millionaire industrialist who was the husband of investigative journalist Elizabeth Jane Cochran (better known as Nellie Bly), whom he married in 1895 in Chicago.

Royal Naval Cemetery

Seaman Jack Foreman Mantle who was killed on 4 July 1940 during a German air raid on Portland, was buried at the cemetery.

Sebastian Claude Ridley

In 1878 he moved to the Liverpool Seaman's Orphanage, latterly Newsham Park Hospital.

Second Battle of Heligoland Bight

It was during this battle that Able Seaman John Henry Carless of HMS Caledon won a posthumous Victoria Cross for his bravery in manning a gun despite mortal wounds.

Skirmish at the Genitchi Strait

It is notable in that it was the occasion on which a Victoria Cross was awarded, to seaman Joseph Trewavas.

Sneakbox

It is generally accepted that Captain Hazelton Seaman invented the first sneakbox about 1836, in West Creek, New Jersey.

Tony Beckley

Beckley spent two years as a seaman aboard the destroyer HMS Scorpion where he found the time to prepare for admission to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA).

United States Naval Reserve Midshipmen's School

Candidates were required to enlist in the Naval Reserve and following a one-month indoctrination course as apprentice seaman, they attended a three-month course in the midshipmen's school.

Unsinkable Sam

The loss of Ark Royal proved the end of Sam's shipborne career and he was transferred first to the offices of the Governor in Gibraltar, and then sent back to the United Kingdom, where he saw out the remainder of the war living in a seaman's home in Belfast.

USS Commodore Perry

Four crewmen were awarded the Medal of Honor for their actions during the expedition against Franklin: Boatswain's Mate John Breen, Seaman Daniel Lakin, Seaman Alfred Peterson, and Seaman John Williams.

War song

The same period saw numerous patriotic war songs, like ‘Heart of Oak’ and the emergence of a stereotype of the English seaman as ‘Jolly Jack Tar’, who appeared in many ballads.

Weinmann

Ariel Weinmann, U.S. Navy Seaman Recruit guilty of espionage and desertion

William Imrie

He gave financial support to the Seaman’s Orphanage in Newsham Park.

William Morse

On that day, while Shenandoah was at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, he and Seaman John Smith jumped overboard and rescued First Class Fireman James Grady from drowning.

Wisconsin State Federation of Labor

Frank J. Weber: seaman, union organizer, first president of the WSFL, and Socialist state legislator

Wolfgang Lüth

On the night of 13/14 May 1945 Lüth was shot in the head by 18 year-old Matrose (seaman) Mathias Gottlob, a German guard, when the officer failed to respond to the sentry's challenge.


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