Purser
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A purser is the person on a ship principally responsible for the handling of money on board. On modern merchant ships, the purser is the officer responsible for all administration and supply. Frequent
1799 illustration of a Royal Navy purser
c. 1807 portrait of a Royal Navy purser
Chief steward
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A chief steward is the senior crew member working in the steward's department of a ship. Since there is no purser on most ships in the United States Merchant Marine, the steward is the senior person i
Purser
…the purser is the officer responsible for all administration (including the ship's cargo and passenger manifests) and supply. Frequently, the cooks and stewards answer to the purser as well. They were also called a pusser in British naval slang. The purser joined the warrant officer ranks of the Royal Navy in…
Galley of the Austrian passenger ship S.S. Africa in the Mediterranean sea circa 1905.