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Expert leadsmen,* and skippers,� oldsters mostly, gathered last week at Franklin Field in Boston.

From Time Magazine Archive

From forward, ghost voices of the leadsmen chanted the soundings.

From "Carry On, Mr. Bowditch" by Jean Lee Latham

One of the gorgeous ones remarked— 'I don't want to find fault with your leadsmen, but that's a good deal of water for Plum Point, it seems to me.'

From Life on the Mississippi, Part 2. by Twain, Mark

Unnoticed by the natives, she gained the entrance to the lagoon, the leadsmen in the chains, and the decks cleared for action.

From The Nameless Island A Story of some Modern Robinson Crusoes by Westerman, Percy F. (Percy Francis)

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