Navy Apprentices are junior crew members learning the basics of seamanship—rigging, knotwork, lookout duties, and ship maintenance. Often assigned to menial tasks, they train under seasoned sailors and hope to earn a permanent station. Though inexperienced, their eyes and ears catch what veterans overlook, making them useful in quiet corners.
You watch them haul ropes with raw hands, boots thudding on salt-slick planks. Their uniforms hang loose, stained with pitch and brine, hair tangled in sea wind, eyes sharp beneath furrowed brows, always glancing upward.