Chief steward

Ranks on a merchant ship

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 in the department, whence its name. In the British Merchant Navy, a steward is a junior member of the department, and so the term "chief steward" is always used for the senior member.

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