deck hand

He said to the deckhand: "Can I clean the lady and myself up?"

With him came a deckhand, who, under Cotton's orders, had stove in a barrel of sulphur.

He hastily wrote a line on a slip of paper and gave it to a deckhand to deliver.

"Fire," he bawled as the Maggie rested an instant in the trough of the sea—and a deckhand jerked the lanyard.