LOADSMAN

By SovConn | June 13, 2013

loadsman.Hist.1. A person who directs a ship’s course from a small boat traveling in front of the larger ship rather than from the ship itself. • The loadsmen had a monopoly on piloting in the cinque ports. See CINQUE PORTS. 2. A person who took the ship to a berth after a pilot had brought it into port. — Also spelled loadman; lodeman; lodesman.
[Blacks Law 8th]

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