The chief mate is the head of the deck department.

She heard eight bells struck, and the chief mate come below to turn in.

Later attacks, when I was chief mate and then master, didn't do much damage.

Like Jim, he was a chief mate involved in a shipwreck.

But I saw our chief mate carried thither more than once.

The process is planned by the ship's captain, often with assistance from the chief mate.

A faint snore came through the closed door of the chief mate's room.

No chief mate ever made more than one voyage in the Sephora, you know.

Meanwhile, David Young, the chief mate, had discovered a new problem.

I am the chief mate of a merchant ship.

The chief mate stumbled, caught hold of the rail for support and glared.

You see, he wasn't exactly the sort for the chief mate of a ship like the Sephora."

"You did look middling bad a little while ago," the chief mate remarked without showing any great concern.

The chief mate, who'd thrown himself behind a small boulder, got unsteadily to his feet and looked around.

The chief mate typically stands the 4-8 navigation watch.

Then the chief mate switches his bomb, which had been set in a most dangerous place on the ship when it was flooded.

It later appeared that the pilot, chief mate, first and second engineers were Union sympathizers.

Scowling, blood dripping down his arm, the chief mate obeyed.

The two watches were headed by the chief mate and the second mate.

I pointed out to the chief mate that what I really wanted to know was where he had buried his late captain.

There was a chief mate for more mundane matters having to do with fishing and seamanship.

His chief mate and most faithful friend was unskilled at ordering or persuading others.

Reporting for work on his first morning, he found the chief mate stricken with a catastrophic hangover.

Gower rose to chief mate of the Essex and qualified as a captain.