A seaman's chest is a wooden chest which was commonly used by sailors to store personal belongings. They are also known as sea chests, not to be confused...
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used on sailing ships in a variety of ways. They have been utilized as chest handles or on row boats as a soft oar lock. They are a rope ring that is...
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Sea chest may refer to: Sea chest (nautical) Seaman's chest Seacrest This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Sea chest. If an...
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deductions from the pay of each Royal Navy seaman. From 1594 to 1649, deductions were set at 1⁄30 of a seaman's wages, equivalent in 1626 to a sixpence from...
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seaman is a junior non-commissioned rank or rate in navies, particularly those of the Commonwealth. When it is used by NATO nations, leading seaman has...
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him with a chisel that was proved to have been taken from the same seaman's chest as the maul. The court finally declared Williams guilty of the crimes...
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map of Manhattan and surrounding waters, drafting it in chalk on a seaman's chest. The earliest surviving map of the area now known as New York City is...
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architect. He designed a memorial to William Dampier in the shape of a seaman's chest, installed at Broome. Clifton married Nancy Millicent Hughes on 28 April...
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huia and papa hou had been mostly replaced by Western style lockable seaman's chests. Only waka huia were still being produced by the 1890s. By this time...
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such as waka huia treasure containers being replaced with lockable seaman's chests by the 1840s. Traditionally, many expert carvers focused on creating...
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