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British boy sailors receiving instruction on how to use a sounding line onboard the battleship HMS Rodney during World War II

A boy seaman (plural boy seamen) is a boy who serves as seaman or is trained for such service.

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Boy seaman

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A boy seaman (plural boy seamen) is a boy who serves as seaman or is trained for such service. In the British Royal Navy, where there was a need to recruit...

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Mustin family

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Scalloway, in Shetland, father of Commodore Arthur Sinclair, who as a boy seaman sailed with Commodore George Anson in 1740, on a British mission to capture...

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David Seaman

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David Andrew Seaman MBE (born 19 September 1963) is an English former footballer who played as a goalkeeper. In a career lasting from 1981 to 2004, he...

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Jack Cornwell

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and received further training as a Sight Setter or Gun Layer and became Boy Seaman First Class. On Easter Monday 1916, Cornwell left for Rosyth, Scotland...

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Hammock

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2020-03-25. Encyclopædia Britannica (1823) "Chief Petty Officer Victor Merry, Boy Seaman in battleships and destroyers in the Second World War – obituary". Daily...

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David Farragut

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to the Scottish Rite Masonry. Spring 1810, added to U.S. Navy rolls as boy seaman December 17, 1810, appointed midshipman at age 9. 1812, assigned to the...

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Reginald Earnshaw

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February 2010. Reid, Melanie (6 July 2009). "Youngest casualty: Memorial for boy seaman, 14". The Times. London. Retrieved 5 February 2010. Casualty details—Earnshaw...

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George Burchett

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for tattooing his classmates. He joined the Royal Navy at age 13 (see boy seaman). He developed his tattooing skills while travelling overseas as a deckhand...

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Frederick Rutland

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World War. Rutland killed himself in 1949. He joined the Royal Navy as a boy seaman in 1901. He was graded as Flight Sub-Lieutenant in the Royal Naval Air...

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List of recipients of the Order of Industrial Heroism

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the National Museum Wales. 357 Ivor Price 358 Frederick J. Scales Lift boy (seaman) London, E.16 6 May 1958 Merchant Navy Hotel, London 11 July 1958 Saved...

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Ernest Joyce

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career as a boy seaman in 1891. His Antarctic experiences began 10 years later, when he joined Scott's Discovery Expedition as an Able Seaman. In 1907 Shackleton...

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Richard Trowbridge

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representative in Australia. He was also the first officer to rise from boy seaman to captain of the Queen's yacht HMY Britannia. Richard John Trowbridge...

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Len Wincott

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Leicester in 1907. Having few other options, he joined the Royal Navy as a boy seaman in 1923 after time at the training centre for boys at Shotley in Suffolk...

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Harry Pursey

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was a British politician and naval officer, who began his career as a boy seaman and served as a member of parliament for twenty-five years. He was born...

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David Hahn

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1976 – September 27, 2016), sometimes called the "Radioactive Boy Scout" and the "Nuclear Boy Scout" was an American nuclear radiation enthusiast who built...

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Tristan Jones

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school at 14 to work on sailing barges (A Steady Trade), and served as a boy seaman in the Royal Navy during World War II (Heart of Oak). While his account...

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Cornwell Scout Badge

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Jutland in 1916. John Travers Cornwell, known as "Jack", was a 16-year-old Boy Seaman First Class on board the Royal Navy light cruiser, HMS Chester. At the...

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Alf Lowe

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British recipient of the George Cross. Lowe joined the Royal Navy as a boy seaman in January 1947. After training at HMS Ganges, he joined the crew of the...

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James Wellbeloved

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formation in 1981. Wellbeloved was born in Lewisham in 1926. He was a boy seaman in the Royal Navy during World War II. After the war, he attended South...

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Dod Orsborne

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formative years. When he was 14 Orsborne lied about his age and enlisted as a Boy Seaman in the Royal Navy. He served in the Dover Patrol, and was wounded during...

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Hall boy

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The hall boy or hallboy was a position held by a young male domestic worker on the staff of a great house, usually a young teenager. The name derives...

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Imperial War Museum

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shot of the First World War) or a gun served by Victoria Cross-winning boy seaman Jack Cornwell. The museum was closed for the duration of the war in September...

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Sinbad the Sailor

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Sinbad: The Battle of the Dark Knights (1998) – DTV film about a young boy that must go back in time to help Sinbad. The 7 Adventures of Sinbad (2010)...

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