sea-priest

After his mother died, there was nothing holding Wogan to his small village so he signed up with the first passing ship as a healer and sea-priest.

Meet the Reavers – Wogan, Chelish Sea-Priest « Geek Related 2009

The little cluster of huts where he and his gang lived centred round the tattered dwelling of a sea-priest -- one who had never set foot on black water, but had been chosen as ghostly counsellor by two generations of sea-rovers all unaffected by port missions or those creeds which are thrust upon sailors by agencies along Thames bank.

The Day's Work - Volume 1 Rudyard Kipling 1900

The little cluster of huts where he and his gang lived centred round the tattered dwelling of a sea-priest -- one who had never set foot on black water, but had been chosen as ghostly counsellor by two generations of sea-rovers all unaffected by port missions or those creeds which are thrust upon sailors by agencies along Thames bank.

The Bridge Builders Rudyard Kipling 1900