lampmen

Updated: May 1, 2025

The cabin watchmen were there, and some of the watch below, among whom were stokers and coal-passers, and also, a few of the idlers lampmen, yeomen, and butchers, who, sleeping forward, had been awakened by the terrific blow of the great hollow knife within which they lived. Three carpenters' mates stood by the door, with sounding-rods in their hands, which they had just shown the captain dry.

Morgan Robertson - The Wreck of the Titan: or, Futility