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 long ship lay steady on the waves and went gallantly, but the steersman at the long steering-sweep in the stern looked into the rain that beat the sea and saw nothing but the rain.

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

The ship lunged and half rolled into the trough of the waves; then the steersmen, sheltered in their box, gained control and swung it about.

From The Argus Pheasant by John Charles Beecham

And it is from them that the skilled canoe men and the experienced flatboat steersmen are selected for the 20 conduct of the precious flotillas on these northern waters.

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

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

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