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• n  an officer who is licensed to command a merchant ship

• master
• captain
• skipper

News & Articles

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• Portland Observatory surveys history and the sea
  PORTLAND, Maine — Historic sites remind us of how far we have come, and the Portland Observatory is certainly a case in point. In 1807, when former sea captain Lemuel Moody built the tower on Munjoy Hill, “sight was the main means of communication,” guide Judy Carll told a small group of cellphone-toting tourists, “and just about every seacoast city had a signal tower.”        
  July 13, 2013 - Boston Globe