Meanings of were seamen in English

As I expected, they were seamen, in appearance regular old salts.

I noticed very quickly that most of the five were seamen.

There were gentlemen and there were seamen in the navy of Charles the Second.

There were seamen in the time of the Commonwealth who rarely, perhaps some who never, served afloat except in a man-of-war.

The deaths on board ship show whether they were seamen or passengers, and the passengers are marked as cabin and steerage.

Below, again, in the dark recesses of the hold, there were seamen with lanterns getting up stores and provisions of various sorts.

Several of these men were seamen, and all were able and healthy; so that I considered them a great acquisition to our strength.

The garrison now consisted of about fifteen hundred men, of whom eight hundred were militia, and between four and five hundred were seamen.

There were seamen and artisans on the list, and Garibaldi, the gallant captain of the mercantile marine, swore devotion to the cause of freedom.

The ancestors of Hawthorne, unlike those of most of the New England writers, were not of the clergy, but were seamen, soldiers, and magistrates.