The physician Maturin befriends a man with this job named Aubrey in a series of novels by Patrick O'Brian that begins with Master and Commander.
A character with this occupation who is obsessed with the idea that he is "destined for glory" marries the owner of the boutique Rex. That character with this occupation showers in a public drinking fountain, which is one of the eighteen "crimes" that causes his adopted son's gang to kill him. Joss Merlyn leads a group who engineer the deaths of these people in order to steal from them in Daphne du Maurier's Jamaica Inn. Richard Henry (*) Dana wrote a memoir about spending two years in this occupation. The physician Maturin befriends a man with this job named Aubrey in a series of novels by Patrick O'Brian that begins with Master and Commander. For 10 points, identify this occupation of Ryuji Tsukazaki, who "fell from grace with the sea" in a Yukio Mishima novel, and of Stubb, Starbuck, and Ishmael from Moby-Dick.
A character with this occupation who is obsessed with the idea that he is "destined for glory" marries the owner of the boutique Rex.
sailors [or obvious synonyms like mariners or seamen; or members of the navy; or naval cadets; or even specific stuff like ship captains or second mates or whalers]