'Carpenter's Mate - sound the well every five minutes and report to me each time.

Carpenter's mate, go below immediately, I want the damage to this ship repaired at once.

So would all the spare wood the carpenter's mate had stowed below.

He had intended to have the carpenter's mate put in a couple of fastenings to secure it.

'Three inches in the well, sir,' said the carpenter's mate, making his routine report.

The Carpenter's Mate says there's four feet o' water in the well and rising fast.

Leaks - the carpenter's mate had sounded the well fifteen minutes ago and reported only the usual amount of water.

A ship might need carpenters, so tell the carpenter's mate and his crew to have bags of tools ready.

"If he does, he'd soon be ordering us to send over carpenter's mates to repair the damage after they ran aboard each other!"

'I'll go down and get some bits of wood from the carpenter's mate to use as targets.'

The rest of the carpenter's mates stopped to watch and, at an order from the carpenter, leaned against the yard to steady it, standing alternately.

Pass the word down to the Carpenter's Mate that we'll probably be under fire on the starboard side in less than five minutes' time.'

During his service he was stationed in Okinawa, where he attained the rank of carpenter's mate third class.

And he is happy with the notion of promoting his carpenter's mate to poor Mr Hadley's place.

What did it matter, anyway, he thought impatiently: what matters is the Carpenter's Mate's next report.

Two new carpenters had been carpenter's mates in the flagship, and one carpenter's crew.

Responsibilities of carpenter's mates included maintaining ship ventilation, watertight control, painting, and drainage.

A carpenter's mate addressed his chief: 'We'm making water: five ton a minute,' in a tone of penetrating anxiety that affected all who heard him.

Nor would the Carpenter's Mate know.

He saw the Carpenter's Mate waiting.

"Where is this carpenter's mate now, Commander?"

Two topmen and the carpenter's mate.

In times of battle, carpenter's mates would fight fires and use plugs to patch holes in the hull.

Should he call the Bosun and Carpenter's Mate?

"The carpenter's mate is going to fasten the box to the deck farther forward as soon as the hurricane stops.