The term "sailor of fortune" refers to the similar idiom, "soldier of fortune" (hired mercenary, or an adventurer). However, the naval version is not limited to privateers and other seagoing entrepreneurs, and may refer to professional sailors of a country's navy: those who have engaged in conflicts with pirates, warlords, and others outside the scope of declared wars.
Of the 2,999 people who died because of the attacks on 9/11, 55 were listed as military personnel at the Pentagon. No sailors were listed as active sailors but may have been sailors acting in a different capacity.
Sailors deffinately need to know how to tie their shoes. Aslo, sailors need to know how to swin, hunt, bike, rin, and how to saddle a whale.
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British sailors were issued lime juice as a remedy for scurvy.
US Navy Sailors Creed http://navydads.blogspot.com/2008/09/sailors-creed.html
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.
Sailors
Sailors on any type of vessel are called a crew of sailors.
The sailors in "Rime of the Ancient Mariner" are cursed after the mariner shoots an albatross. They suffer from thirst, starvation, and death until the mariner learns to appreciate and love all of God's creatures, lifting the curse.
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Crew is to sailors as battalion is to soldiers.