sea captains
Maritime vessel leaders
Sea captains is the plural of sea captain, the commander of a merchant vessel or other non-military ship.
The term evokes an era of wooden sailing ships and long ocean voyages: The old sea captain had weathered storms around Cape Horn.
Sea captains have legal authority to perform marriages at sea and make decisions binding on crew and passengers.
- skipperVessel's commanding officer
- shipmasterCommander of a vessel
- marinerOne who navigates ships
- admiralSenior naval commander
- letter of marqueAuthorization for private warship
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- maritime historysailors, ships, seamen, sailing ships, celestial navigation
- Maritime Industryshipping lines, container ships, merchant ships, steamships, merchant marine
- nauticalanchor, anchor chain, anchors, boat, boats
- Adventurersexplorers, adventurers, pioneers, trailblazers, pathfinders
- sea in literatureMoby Dick, sea legends, ocean voyages, seafaring tales, sea monsters
sea captainsdeckhands
Ship's manual laborers
cabin boys · swabbies · enlisted sailors · swabs · sailors
sea captainsarmy generals
Highest-ranking military officers
cavalry officers · landlubbers · desert nomads · mountain guides · tank commanders
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Non-seafaring people, derisively
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