coxswain
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Coxswain of the current lifeboat Vic Sutherland said: "Their sacrifice lives long in the memory here at the station and they are never far from our thoughts each time we answer the pager."
From BBC • Jan. 18, 2020
Lifeboat crews said it was a "prank gone wrong", and Coxswain Paddy Lee added: "He is a very lucky man".
From BBC • May 1, 2015
THE BAR Service bar along one side of the main dining room has a full complement of drinks, including several summer coolers, mixed drinks with sculling names like Coxswain, Drive Ten and Catch Point.
From New York Times • Jun. 12, 2010
In it were Coxswain Henry Hamilton Bissell, Stroke Gerard Cassedy and four other oarsmen who were on the crews that beat Yale last year and the year before.
From Time Magazine Archive
Coxswain, take the gig on board and tell the surgeon to come on shore immediately, and bring him up to me at the barracks.”
From Mr. Midshipman Easy by Marryat, Frederick
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