steersman

The narrator is portrayed as the junior steersman.

From Textbooks ● Dec. 21, 2021

Once, it was a happy little Greek term for a steersman, adapted in the 1940s by scientists describing the interaction between humans and machines: cybernetics.

From BBC ● May 19, 2017

It looks like Marvel’s found their new franchise steersman.

From Time ● Mar. 23, 2015

Adam Bielamowicz, a tenor, was a bright steersman.

From New York Times ● Jul. 22, 2013

The steersman watched for it on each rise of the great waves, and saw it as Ged saw it again, but shouted back that it was only the setting sun.

From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin

All rigging whole and all hands well, we rested, letting the wind and steersmen work the ships, for five days; on the fifth we made the delta.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer

Above the termini of these steamer routes all travelling is done in keelless bateaux, propelled by paddlers and steered when coming through the rapids at both bow and stern by certificated bowmen and steersmen.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" by Various

Now and again across the water came the curious droning song of the Cree steersmen, musical but wild.

From Young Alaskans in the Far North by Emerson Hough

The canoe-men are of two descriptions, foremen and steersmen, and middlemen.

From Voyages from Montreal Through the Continent of North America to the Frozen and Pacific Oceans in 1789 and 1793 Vol. I by Alexander Mackenzie

Some of these tumble the big ship about, till the steersmen feel her going almost regardless of the rudder.

From The Flag of Distress A Story of the South Sea by Mayne Reid