watch-officer

The watch-officer and the commander stand by the periscope, watching the approaching craft.

Our Navy in the War Lawrence Perry 1914

The eyes of the watch-officer are glued to the periscope.

Our Navy in the War Lawrence Perry 1914

One senior watch-officer, now in the foretop, called down that he could now see the ship.

The U-boat hunters 1912

We did slow down and stop when it came time to clear away a whale-boat and send it over to the steamer with our senior watch-officer and the surgeon, with the needful surgical supplies.

The U-boat hunters 1912

That's it "-- he turned to the watch-officer --" you know how these Britishers are for regulations.

The U-boat hunters 1912

And one watch-officer of every destroyer has the extra job of acting as chief engineer of the ship; and when a watch-officer had to go aboard a torpedoed ship, or to go in the crow's nest in a critical time, to spend hours, it may be, the time so spent is in addition to his regular eight hours.

The U-boat hunters 1912

The first watch-officer, having finished his breakfast and a morning watch, was just then taking a little nap on the port ward-room transom with his clothes and sea-boots still on.

The U-boat hunters 1912

The skipper's first act was to shake up the second watch-officer, who also happened to be acting as chief engineer of the ship, and to pass him the word to speed the ship up to twenty-five knots.

The U-boat hunters 1912

Early that same evening Sub-Lieutenant Jarvison, watch-officer of the electric cruiser _Erebus_, reported to his commander that a landfall had been made six points away on the port bow.

The Doomsman Van Tassel Sutphen 1903

'Ark to the bald an' unconvincin 'watch-officer chimin' in.

Traffics and Discoveries Rudyard Kipling 1900