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 searchlight shone directly at them for seconds that felt like minutes, but then it swung away and the engine noise changed as the steersman opened the throttle and moved off along the flood.

From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" 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

Cora was as adept at the wheel of the Pet as she was at that of the Whirlwind, and many admiring comments were made by other steersmen in the Cove, though Cora knew it not.

From The Motor Girls on the Coast or, The Waif From the Sea by Margaret Penrose

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

As darkness deepened the three sloops set out westward under shortened canvas, keeping so close that the steersmen hailed each other frequently through the night.

From The Black Buccaneer by Stephen W. (Stephen Warren) Meader

And so it is, a chart upon which the steersmen of so vast and so responsible an enterprise safely pick their course upon a seemingly unending journey.

From The Romance of a Great Store by Edward Hungerford