Boatswain (disambiguation)
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Boatswain or bosun may have the following meanings.
- Boatswain, a seaman rank and occupation
- Boatswain is also another name for the skua, a predatory bird, though it can be applied to any species of gull of the genus Stercorarius.
- Boatswain was the name of a Newfoundland dog kept by Lord Byron, who honored him in elegiac poetry after he died.
- Boatswain Bird Island, a small uninhabited island and nature reserve home to many endemic species of bird off the coast of Ascension Island.
- "Bosun," spelled that way, is also the NATO reporting name for the Soviet Tupolev Tu-14 bomber.
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