Definition of Shipmaster

1. n. The captain, master, or commander of a ship.

Definition of Shipmaster

1. Noun. The master of a ship; a captain; a commander. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Shipmaster

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Shipmaster

shipfyrd
shiphandler
shiphandlers
shipholder
shipholders
shiplap
shiplaps
shipless
shiplet
shiplets
shiplike
shipling
shipload
shiploads
shipman
shipmaster (current term)
shipmasters
shipmate
shipmates
shipmen
shipment
shipments
shipowner
shipowners
shippable
shippage
shippe
shipped
shippen
shippens

Literary usage of Shipmaster

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Men of the Merchant Service: Being the Polity of the Mercantile Marine by Frank Thomas Bullen (1900)
"IF, as is highly improbable, the average landsman ever thinks anything about the duties of a shipmaster, it would be most interesting to know what he ..."

2. Arnould on the Law of Marine Insurance by Joseph Arnould (1887)
"THE SHIP AND shipmaster IN THE RELATION OF CARRIER UNDER THE POLICY. Of the ship - - - - Naming ship in policy - - reason for - - - Policy on goods by ship ..."

3. The Law of Agency: Including the Law of Principal and Agent and the Law of by Ernest Wilson Huffcut (1901)
"... of our courts enforce it on the same theory as in the case of the compulsory agency of the wife.8 § 57. Agency of shipmaster. A shipmaster has authority ..."

4. A Digest of the Law of Shipping and of Marine Insurance by Harry Newson (1883)
"Consequently, a shipmaster will not make the owner liable by signing bills of ... In some trades it is usual for the broker, and not for the shipmaster, ..."

5. Revised Laws of the State of California: In Four Codes : Political, Civil by California, Creed Haymond, John Chilton Burch, Charles Lindley (1871)
"Authority of shipmaster on behalf of shipowner. 2374. ... *ii • , i shipmaster SEC. 2373. The master of a ship is a general agent for Authority of its owner ..."

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