Punctuation please- apostrophe

the crew's seaman's book. There's only one 'crew' and one 'seaman'.

Mr. Micawber,

Question: Is the topic of apostrophe placement really part of "punctuation"? Since it has to do with the formation of the possessive case, I want to say it's grammar. What do you think?

I know this is off-topic for the thread, but I was curious what the general view is on this.

California Jim

Morning Jim,

It's called a punctuation mark in my Language and Linguistics dictionary, but personally I don't care how we classify it.

Thank you for your response, but I will try to explain

The Seamans Book is like a passport identification for every crew member of a vessel, so we are actually asking for all crews to produce their Seamans Book

The crews Seamens Book ?

Many crews, each person a crew member with his/her own Seamans Book or Seamens Book.

Confused, I am. Many crews but only

Mister Micawber,

I don't have the foggiest idea concerning the validity of what I am about to write. So proceed with caution.

I did a quick google search on "seamans book" on google, and in every instances (first couple of pages) it was "seamans book", no apostrophe. So I suspect that "the crew's seaman's book" is not the proper punctuation/grammar. I don't know what it is

Thanks, MH-- I didn't have a foggy either-- it never crossed my mind that it was a little book each carries-- I had an image of a kind of ship's log. Googling gives us:

'Seamans book' - 144 hits
'Seaman's book' - 953 hits
'Seamen's book' - 58 hits
and even
'Seamens' book' - 10 hits

All of which seem to refer to the same passport-like entry book which seamen

Mister Micawber,

For some reason I thought Google ignored punctuation when performing searches. So when I searched "seamans book" I thought I was automatically covering off: seamans book and seaman's book. Obviously, that is not the case.

Glad you dug a little deeper than I did and provided a better answer.

Take care,
MountainHiker

desperate for all information on seamans passports, anyb suggestions ???

tks matt from south africa

0 It is Seaman's Record Book as I have one and that is how it is printed on the cover. 0-

I believe that this is from my own question, just minutes ago. I was however quite surprised to see so many comments here so soon. Maybe somebody else has the same issue.

I am filling out forms to work on a foriegn ship and they are asking for the Seaman's Book. I am pretty sure it is the equivilent to the US Merchant Mariner's Document, but not 100% sure. I think it is a booklet that th