midshipman's Usage Examples:

King, who had been a midshipman in the navy, Farewell visited Port Natal, St Lucia and Delagoa Bays.

NAPOLEON MOSCOW, OCTOBER 30, 1812When, however, the Civil War began, he volunteered into the navy, was rated acting master's mate, and became a midshipman in October 1861, and a lieutenant in July 1862, serving in the North Atlantic blockading squadron.

midshipmanercised his own power to get them made midshipmen on Assistant, not Providence.

Brooke, a midshipman of the U.

midshipmanand midshipmen's uniform was unaltered apart from the buttons, which were the same as captains ' .

Naval Academy in 1881, served two years as midshipman, then resigned from the navy and became a civil engineer.

He entered the navy as midshipman (1799) with his father, Christopher Raymond Perry (1761-1818), a captain in the navy, and saw service against the Barbary pirates.

He entered the United States Navy as a midshipman in 1818, and became a lieutenant in 1826.

His first service was under Lord Cochrane (afterwards tenth earl of Dundonald) in the famous "Imperieuse," and no midshipman ever had a livelier apprenticeship to the sea.

He became a midshipman in the United States navy in 1829, and was in the coast survey in 1836-1842.

During his two and a half years of service under Cochrane, the young midshipman witnessed more than fifty engagements, and had much experience of service on the coast of Spain in the early stage of the Peninsular War, in the attack on the French squadron in the Roads (April 1809) and in the Walcheren expedition.

STEPHEN DECATUR (1779-1820), American naval commander, was born at Sinnepuxent, Maryland, on the 5th of January 1779, and entered the United States navy as a midshipman in 1798.

midshipmanhered with due form into the midshipmen's berth of the Daring.

Synonyms:

plebe, cadet,

Antonyms:

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