Bestmann (seafaring)

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Bestmann is an older term in small coastal shipping or fishing for a member of the deck crew who takes on sea guards instead of a helmsman on sea voyages , but without having such a patent . Ships on the small coastal voyage often had no other nautical patent holder on board besides the captain . For this reason, an experienced sailor, who had acquired the necessary knowledge of navigating the ship through the practical instructions on board, took over the sea ​​watch in alternation with the captain.

The payment of the best man was equal to that of a helmsman. Originally the best man was called a fisherman's servant in the fishery , this name changed in the 1920s. Another name is Fietz .

literature

  • Golz, Reinhard: The language of the Finkenwerder fishermen . Ed .: Altonaer Museum in Hamburg. Koehler, Herford 1984, ISBN 3-7822-0342-9 , pp. 100 .
  • Kramer, Undine: Special vocabulary and their codification in German dictionaries: tradition, constancy and change . Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2010, p. 356 .
  • Career and training in German merchant shipping , In: Nauticus: Yearbook for Seafaring and World Economy , Volume 33, 1962, p. 117