leadsman
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leadsmen
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No leadsman need stand in the bow to take soundings, for the navigator has an acoustic-electric fathometer to tell him, at the press of a button, how much water is beneath the hull.
From Time Magazine Archive
Under bare steerage way, with the leadsman droning in the fore chains, the ship hugged the shore and steamed at a snail's pace round the island.
From Wild Justice: Stories of the South Seas by Lloyd Osbourne
The leadsman was ordered to sound, as the screw was stopped, and he reported sixteen fathoms with the deep-sea lead.
From Stand By The Union by L. J. (Lewis Jesse) Bridgman
The leadsman, a young fellow from Freekirk Head, took his place on the schooner’s rail outside the forerigging.
From The Harbor of Doubt by George W. Gage
He slowed the freighter to a snail's pace when he approached the dredged channel, and at last the leadsman found suitable bottom.
From Blow The Man Down A Romance Of The Coast - 1916 by Holman Day
From forward, ghost voices of the leadsmen chanted the soundings.
From "Carry On, Mr. Bowditch" by Jean Lee Latham
The cries of the leadsmen went on—and it is a weird sound, always, in the night.
From Life on the Mississippi, Part 2. by Mark Twain
Long before it did, speed was slackened: the yacht was at last in soundings; the calls of the leadsmen were as monotonous as the whistle blasts, and almost as frequent.
From Alias the Lone Wolf by Louis Joseph Vance
The bank would tell you so, and then you'd stir those leadsmen up a bit.
From Life on the Mississippi, Part 2. by Mark Twain
Soon the voices of the leadsmen were heard through the still silence of night, as the gallant frigate clove her way through the calm waters.
From The Three Midshipmen by Victor Prout
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