Notable Able Seamen
Some notable able seamen from the merchant service include:
- Perce Blackborow, stowaway then AB on Shackleton's voyage to Antarctica
- John Brightman, Baron Brightman, an English Chancery barrister and ultimately a judge of the House of Lords.
- Joseph Curran, American labor leader
- Charles Lindley, a Swedish socialist and trade union activist
- Jack Lord American actor
- Alan Villiers, Australian author, adventurer, photographer and master mariner
- The Three ABs on the crew of the Edmund Fitzgerald when she sank in the 1975 November storm on Lake Superior: Paul M. Riippa, Bruce L. Hudson, and Mark A. Thomas.
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