Naval rank

Usage examples of midshipman.

During the following year, on his cruise to the Mediterranean, he was messmate with a midshipman named William Taylor, a young man of singularly fine character, which seems to have been the chief cause of the influence he exerted upon Farragut.

He noted also that, of the twelve or thirteen midshipmen there associated with him, in less than two years all but one, his old messmate Ogden, of the Essex, had disappeared from the navy.

Technically, no midshipman was authorized to operate or even maintain a motorcycle within twenty-two miles of the Academy--the most common cause of death for mids was traffic accidents.

Barkley, midshipman, one of the younger squeakers, and Joshua Spense, the Kingston man.

Then, retaining only fifty men as a guard to the battery, the midshipmen ordered the rest of the defenders of the abattis to move forward among the trees on the flanks of the Russians, keeping up a constant fire, until they joined the main body in their attack on the Russian rear.

But then no doubt the little midshipman had never imagined himself on an Abyssinian mountainside, with his rockets.

At this word Jack leant out for the backstay and shot down on deck like a midshipman, forgetting his dignity and laddering his fine white stockings.

Graduate Academy of Biosciences and his younger son, James, entered Starfleet Academy as a junior midshipman.

In my dress whites, accompanied by the chief petty officer and a midshipman, I inspected each crew berth and its occupants, who stood at attention while I coldly scrutinized lockers, bunks, and men, liberally dispensing demerits for infractions.

Canopus and Achernar high overhead, and Jack showed his attentive midshipmen the new constellations, Musca, Pavo, Chamaeleon and many more, all glowing in the warm, pellucid air.

The following afternoon, heralded by the shouted orders of Midshipman Brewer and the sound of oars creaking in their rowlocks, a boat from the Sirius came to Pinchgut Island.

As the ship was kept under her topsails and spanker, with two reefs down, no fresh sail was made, and the boatswain did not order the midshipmen to perform any duty.

He doubted that any midshipman ever really appreciated the fact that an officer candidate training officer who did his job properly wound up running almost as hard and as fast as his snotties did.

He swung round to scowl at the third midshipman, an undersized youngster who was peering through steel-rimmed spectacles at some pencilled calculations he had been making.

Halloran, Sublieutenant Henderson, Midshipmen Turnbull and Waldegrave.