cockswain

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From Fighting for the Right by Shute, A. B.

"Put your helm to starboard, your Honour," said the cockswain to me in a quiet voice, "and bring her head right round."

From A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition by Ross, William A.

When we got to the edge of the surf the cockswain hailed them, and after singing out who I was, he and his men threw me into the water.

From My Friend The Murderer by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir

The cockswain persuaded us that the seal was dead to a certainty; but that P—— had stowed such a locker of shot in its head, it was too heavy to float.

From A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition by Ross, William A.

But a Yankee sailor is a hard man to kill—in three weeks cockswain James was at his post again.

From Yankee Ships and Yankee Sailors: Tales of 1812 by Barnes, James