"First mate" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... there on the wharf when our first mate left for Maoriland, he having been forced to leave Sydney because he could not get anything like regular work, nor anything like wages for the work he could get. He was a carpenter and joiner, a ...
— While the Billy Boils • Henry Lawson
... supposed to be an island, our commander honoured it with the appellation of Anderson's Island. The next day he removed Mr. Law, the surgeon of the Discovery, into the Resolution, and appointed Mr. Samwell, the surgeon's first mate of the Resolution, to be surgeon of ...
— Narrative of the Voyages Round The World, • A. Kippis
... buzzing for his first mate when the power went off. The lights went out, the speaker went dead in his hand. The computers sighed contentedly and stopped computing. Abruptly the emergency circuits went into operation, flooding the darkness with harsh white lights. ...
— Gold in the Sky • Alan Edward Nourse
... The first mate held out the clipboard he was carrying. "Would you mind checking over this, Mr. Maxwell? Your ...
— Graveyard of Dreams • Henry Beam Piper
... the first mate's cabin," said the girl, indicating a door. "Mr. Bergstrom, who was mate, died at sea last voyage. Doctor Carlsen acts as navigator with my father, ...
— A Man to His Mate • J. Allan Dunn
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