Burroughs, anyway, encountered the 23 in Tan-giers, when a ferryboat captain named Clark remarked that he'd been sailing 23 years without an accident.

Although the American shipping industry has changed, he said, Maritime graduates work as ferryboat captains and on tugboats, keep the local ports running and hold jobs in marine pollution cleanup.

James Peyton, a ferryboat captain; her father's oldest brother who served in the U.S. Navy during World War II.

Until last year, she was a ferryboat captain during the summer months for the town of Greenwich, Conn.

Born in 1880, Garfield Arthur Wood was the third of eight sons of a ferryboat captain and staunch Iowa Republican.

John Moody, who is lost, knocks on Arlyn Singer's door on the day her father, a ferryboat captain, has died.

His training and experience were comparable, in a way, to those of a ferryboat captain.

The ferryboat captain had a long white beard and eyes like burning coals.

Each day the ferryboat captain transports the mail between Bay Shore and the post office on Point O'Woods.