Sailor facts for kids

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A sailor (or seaman) is a person who works at sea on a boat or ship. The sailor works under a captain. The term is only used when the person is working professionally (earning money or make a living).

Sailor is also the lowest rank in a navy.

Images for kids

  • 150902-N-XF387-351 - SN Ana Motapalomares records bearings

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  • Kristina Regina wheelhouse

    Three types of mariners, seen here in the wheelhouse of a ship: a master, an able seaman, and a harbour pilot.

  • Ovrseas alice

    The tanker SS Overseas Alice takes seas over the bow during a 1981 run from New Orleans to Panama.

  • Portrait of a sailor taken on board the French aviso Ardent

    Portrait of a sailor taken on board the French aviso Ardent, 1857.

  • Bundesarchiv B 145 Bild-F048234-0015, Kiel, Segelschiff "Gorch Fock", Matrosen

    Sailors on a ship

  • InthenavyMalgiglia

    Statue dedicated to Italian Sailors at Finale Ligure, Liguria, Italy.

  • Ferdinand Magellan

    Ferdinand Magellan led the first expedition that circumnavigated the globe in 1519–1522.

  • SailorNHMDF

    Statue of a Mexican Navy sailor at the Naval History Museum.


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