leadsman
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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
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
"By the deep seven!" said the leadsman, in loud and shrill tones.
From Up the River or, Yachting on the Mississippi by Optic, Oliver
Though she received nine shots in her hull, the leadsman was the only man wounded on board.
From The Three Commanders by Dugdale, Thomas Cantrell
Also, the breast-rope which is made fast to the shrouds to protect the leadsman.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir
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