merchant sailor
Civilian cargo crewman
A merchant sailor is a person who works aboard commercial ships rather than military vessels.
Merchant sailors crew cargo ships, tankers, and passenger vessels, transporting goods and people for private shipping companies.
The term distinguishes civilian maritime workers from naval personnel: His grandfather was a merchant sailor who spent thirty years on container ships.
- seamanOne who works ships
- able seamanCertified deck crew rank
- marinerOne who navigates ships
- deckhandShip's manual laborer
- shipSeagoing transport vessel
voyage · high seas · shipping lane · cargo · cargo hold · harbor · port · port of call · anchor · rigging · galley · mess hall · bunk · captain · crew · freighter · tanker · dock
- maritime jobscaptain, first mate, seaman, fisherman, ship captain
- sailorscaptain, seaman, mariner, skipper, helmsman
- seafarersseaman, mariner, able seaman, skipper, helmsman
- ship crewseaman, crewman, deckhand, first mate, captain
- shippingshipping, cargo ships, container ships, freight, package
merchant sailornaval officer
Ranked military sailor
marine · bluejacket · naval cadet · navy sailor · coastguardsman
merchant sailorlandlubber
Non-seafaring person
truck driver · farmer · office worker · landsman · train engineer
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