To press gang an American merchant navy captain in possession of a captains ticket was unheard of and entirely illegal.

National Maritime Museum Portrait of a merchant navy captain holding a Caleb Smith Octant.

Born in Great Yarmouth, Shore was the son of a Merchant Navy captain and was brought up in a middle-class environment.

On 23 August 1948 he married Dorothy (Gail) Campbell, the daughter of a Merchant Navy captain; the couple had three daughters and a son.

The case is being fronted by a 79-year-old former merchant navy captain, Albert Ross, who is originally from Scotland and now lives near New Orleans.

Ahsan was the first cousin of Royal Indian Merchant Navy Captain Muhammad Syed.

Neagle was born in Forest Gate, Essex, daughter to Herbert Robertson, a Merchant Navy captain, and his wife, the former Florence Neagle.

He was assisted by four assessors, Admiral Sir Frederick Samuel Inglefield, Lieutenant Commander Hearn and two merchant navy captains, D. Davies and J. Spedding.

The duke of hartwell regarded the tablecloth with that smell-of-bad-fish expression he reserved for tenants wanting a cut in rent and merchant navy captains who forgot to preface public addresses with the words "your grace."

Vijay Pal Singh (Amitabh Bachchan) is a disgraced Merchant Navy captain who is branded a coward, humiliated by society and disowned by his parents for abandoning ship risking the lives of over 300 passengers (perhaps inspired by Joseph Conrad's Lord Jim).

Also born in Liverpool during 1838, Captain Joseph Richards of the Merchant Navy was likewise from an Irish Catholic family - his father John Richards was also a Merchant Navy Captain, and his mother Catherine Richards came from a mariner family.