Many outstanding master seaman, petty officers, and lieutenants are as deserving as senior officers and non-commissioned members.
It is senior to the rank of private and its naval equivalent able seaman, and junior to master corporal (caporal-chef) and its equivalent master seaman (matelot-chef).
It is senior to the rank of master seaman and its equivalents, and junior to petty officer 1st-class and its equivalents.
Hale was a master seaman and boat builder.
A master seaman is equal to a master corporal of the Canadian Army and the Royal Canadian Air Force.
The rank of master seaman is sometimes referred to as "master killick", from "killick", the slang for leading seaman.
Those personnel junior to the master seaman, however, are advised to refrain from addressing the holder by that term.
Still, he added, there is something similar about him and the character he is playing, the master seaman whose shore life is a tangle of debts and missteps.
The yacht carries a crew of 22 under the command of Captain Meirre, a master seaman whose exploits in the Mediterranean are legendary.
The rank of master seaman is unique because it was created only for the Canadian Navy.
