John Dickens worked as a clerk in the Navy Pay Office, responsible for keeping detailed records and accounts of the Navy's finances. His job involved managing payroll and ensuring sailors were paid correctly and on time.
Jobs needed were farmers, lawyers, printers, farriers, store keepers, ship builders, sailors, fishermen, seamstresses, chemists, carpenters, bakers, and millers.
The collective noun for 'sailors' is a crew of sailors, whether there are two sailors or hundreds of sailors.
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Crew
A crew of sailors.
Many were farmers and sheperds. In the cities, there were many artisans, tradesmen, scribes, priests and soldiers. Active river traffic required ship builders, sailors and pilots. Road traffic had its ox and mule team drivers, inn keepers and road maintenance workers.
Sailors
Sailors on any type of vessel are called a crew of sailors.
the ship captain and sailors the ship captain and sailors