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
And I will be your leadsman And lead you the way!
From Fifteenth Century Prose and Verse by Various
"Ma-a-ark, twai-ai-ain," chanted the leadsman for his final call, and not only Hugh but an echo from the land repeated it.
From Gideon's Band A Tale of the Mississippi by Cable, George Washington
"By the deep nine!" came the hoarse murmur of the leadsman.
From Wild Justice: Stories of the South Seas by Osbourne, Lloyd
We had a skilful leadsman in the chains, and at his last cast, he had found no bottom, with eight fathoms of line—all that the speed of the ship would allow him to sink.
From Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States by Semmes, Raphael
From forward, ghost voices of the leadsmen chanted the soundings.
From "Carry On, Mr. Bowditch" by Jean Lee Latham
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 Prout, Victor
So fast had the Indians worked while the leadsmen were in the channel that it required but a 93 few minutes more to reduce the draught of the batteaus to the scale.
From The Boy Scouts on the Yukon by Mencl, Rudolf
The cries of the leadsmen began to rise out of the distance, and were gruffly repeated by the word-passers on the hurricane deck.
From Life on the Mississippi, Part 2. by Twain, Mark
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 Vance, Louis Joseph
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