Sentences with phrase «merchant seaman»

Also, people with service as members in organizations like cadets at the Air Force, United States Military or Coast Guard Academy, Public Health Service officers, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration officers, midshipmen at the United States Naval Academy, merchant seaman with World War II service, and others are eligible to apply for VA Loans.

One of my first projects was a memoir by former merchant seaman Jack Beritzhoff.

And an awesome sight one should have seen before had not this war memorial, this shrine, this one - man protest against Iraq, created and maintained by the former merchant seaman Brian Haw, been obscured by barriers and rushing traffic for six long years on the polluted turf of Parliament Square.

Honourable senators, there are so many different elements: Merchant Seamen Compensation Board; Canada Labour Code; Customs Act; the Hazardous Materials Information Review Commission.

Serve as counsel for more than 100 shipowners in approximately 40,000 maritime asbestos cases filed on behalf of merchant seamen, longshoremen, and other maritime workers.

Here is an example of that better way: A gray - bearded graduate theology student, a former merchant seaman, butcher and barman - cum - bouncer, accepts a part - time position at a suburban New York church: 20 hours of youth ministry a week.

His last parish, in isolated Aberdaron on the coast, brought him back to the sea which his father had sailed as a merchant seaman.

Dear Abby: My brother - in - law, who is now 92 years old, spent most of his youth as a merchant seaman.

Conrad could write about the rough life of a merchant seaman because he had lived it; he could write about the pillaging of the Belgian Congo, as he did vividly in Heart of Darkness, because he had seen it for himself.

Murell is not a career Navy man — he was a merchant seaman before the war — and his unconventional tactics have the crew questioning his experience, but they rally under his command and they rise to the challenge of their first major enemy action.

I have had various occupations over the years: labourer; merchant seaman; electrician in the Royal Air Force; maintenance technician in the food industry (factory), and worked in Saudi Arabia with the Saudi Air Force.

He worked as a merchant seaman and White House... (more)

At age 16 Henning Mankell dropped out of school in order to work as a merchant seaman for two years before settling in Paris.

Shortly after he left Paris to work as a merchant seaman.

Today, a packed house at Folio 949 listened to him read from his newly - published memoir, Sail Away: Journeys of a Merchant Seaman and then lined up to have the «young.

Following this, he served as a merchant seaman in an Atlantic convoy in 1941.

Later, as a result of St. John's work at the Oakland Museum, where he landed a job as an assistant curator (after holding jobs bottling water, moving furniture, as a merchant seaman, and as a letter carrier in Berkeley), he attended an opening party at Diebenkorn's daughter's home celebrating an exhibition of the artist's paintings at the Oakland Museum.

A former merchant seaman, he has spent nearly forty years voyaging around the world, often by cargo ship, to create sublimely meditative, luminously photographed, and intimately diaristic studies of place, from the Yangtze River to the Polish industrial city of Lodz, and from northern Iceland to a ship graveyard on the Bangladeshi shore.

He became a merchant seaman with a Norwegian freighter when he was 17.

After working as a merchant seaman and serving in the U.S. Army (1955 — 57), he settled in England and studied at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Arts and at the Royal College of Art in London.

He worked as a merchant seaman and later as an artist in the United States Army, drawing Russian tanks for war games.

He was educated at Troy High School and worked as a merchant seaman with a Norwegian freighter when he was seventeen.

He did 10 years in the Navy prior to becoming a merchant seaman.

James Jacobsen was a merchant seaman and Alaska fisherman.