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

Serafina Pekkala flew down toward the launch, leaving the dæmons out of sight above, and alighted on the counter just behind the steersman.

From "The Subtle Knife" by Philip Pullman

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

There were four men on the line ashore, and the bow and steersmen standing up in the canoe fending her off the rocks and shallows.

From Canadian Wilds Tells About the Hudson's Bay Company, Northern Indians and Their Modes of Hunting, Trapping, Etc. by Martin Hunter

The steersmen, Coja in the first, Said Mohammed in the second, kept the rafts in midstream, and they glided on the full current with a steadiness that augured well for the voyage.

From Settlers and Scouts by Herbert Strang

The boats were drifting lazily under the banks, the native steersmen half sleeping at their posts, the white men stretched out, listless, sun-wearied, inert.

From Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea by Tom Bevan

While the boats were moving, the decks in the rear were devoted wholly to the use of the 117 steersmen, who required all the space as they occasionally shifted the position of their giant sweeps.

From On the Edge of the Arctic or, An Aeroplane in Snowland by H. L. (Harry Lincoln) Sayler