midshipman

How To Use midshipman In A Sentence

• He joined the Navy and became a midshipman in 1915 on the ship HMS Collingwood.
• The boat then sheered off into safety and lay to its oars, a young midshipman, sitting in the stern and holding the yoke-lines, in charge. The Lost Poacher
• He entered the navy a midshipman in the era of cannon balls and oak hulls powered by sail, and retired as admiral of a fleet of steel, powered by steam, that fired huge shells thousands of yards.
• A midshipman, he arrived aboard the Dordrecht serving as an arquebusier. Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa
• His father was an American, an Annapolis man, a midshipman in the War of the Rebellion, and in 1866 a lieutenant of the Suwanee which coaled at an island in the Pacific. “Have you lived? What have you got to show for it?”
• He entered the navy a midshipman in the era of cannon balls and oak hulls powered by sail, and retired as admiral of a fleet of steel, powered by steam, that fired huge shells thousands of yards.
• She's a college student who's also a midshipman in the Reserve Officer Training Corps on campus.
• The young hero has an inauspicious beginning, turns it to his benefit through pluck and luck, then begins the cursus honorum of the sea: sailor, midshipman, lieutenant, captain, admiral, commemorative 30th-anniversary boxed set, remainder pile, deliquescence. At Journey's End, a Ship of the Line
• ‘I started out as a midshipman, the lowest rank on board a ship, and worked my way up to lieutenant three years later,’ he told the Daily Dispatch on board the ship this week.
• He was fifteen and a midshipman on the HMS Boyne, Admiral Neale's flagship.