chief-mate

When Bildad was a chief-mate, to have his drab-colored eye intently looking at you, made you feel completely nervous, till you could clutch something — a hammer or a marrling-spike, and go to work like mad, at something or other, never mind what.

Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

French, turning to his captain, “that only yesterday his ship spoke a vessel, whose captain and chief-mate, with six sailors, had all died of a fever caught from a blasted whale they had brought alongside.”

Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

“Yes,” rejoined a Guernsey-man from the bulwarks, who turned out to be the chief-mate.

Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

On his arrival there he was employed in making country voyages until the 20th of January, when he sailed as chief-mate in an American ship from Batavia bound to

Thrilling Narratives of Mutiny, Murder and Piracy A weird series of tales of shipwreck and disaster, from the earliest part of the century to the present time, with accounts of providential escapes and heart-rending fatalities. Anonymous

The chief-mate, who got the vessel back to port and remained under her new captain, is convinced that the dead man haunts her vengefully; and one desperate accident after another, racking a crew overwhelmed with fever, almost persuades the captain to share the mate's illusion that 8° 20 '-- _The Shadow

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, April 4, 1917 Various

MR. CONRAD'S new hero is an unnamed chief-mate who gets his first command to a sailing vessel, also unnamed -- queer and of course quite deliberate instance of the author's reticent, allusive method which is so entirely plausible.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, April 4, 1917 Various

The chapter in it he was opening to me, the sea-chapter, with such new personages as the sentimental and apoplectic chief-mate and the morose steward, however astounding to him in its detached condition was much more so to me as a member of a series, following the chapter outside the Eastern Hotel in which I myself had played my part.

Chance Joseph Conrad 1890

And, to cheer me up still more, I sees the little _Lily_ coming back to look for her chief-mate.

For Treasure Bound Harry Collingwood 1886

Bob then went below and turned in, first giving me strict injunctions to call him at "seven-bells," that he might turn out and prepare breakfast, for it now appeared that he intended to unite the functions of chief-mate and cook and steward, on the voyage we had just started upon so auspiciously.

For Treasure Bound Harry Collingwood 1886

For, it must be explained, the late chief-mate of the _Bride of Abydos_ had been promoted to the post of master of that ship -- or _captain_, as the masters of merchant ships like to be called -- and the second-mate had met with an accident, and was lying disabled in an hospital.

The Missing Merchantman Harry Collingwood 1886