...and Johnson, kill the secretary's pets, too. They may have learned from their master. (''... ja Johnson, tapa myös sihteerin lemmikit. Ne ovat voineet oppia isännältään.'')
1849, Francis Wharton, Precedents of Indictments and Pleas,
That B. C. S., late, &c., master mariner, on, &c., at a foreign port or place called Valparaiso, in South America, then and there being the master and commander of the "Henry Clay," ...
He was a Schiff-fuhrer: Ship-conductor. That's how they call a Master Mariner in Germany. I prefer our way. The alliteration is good, and there is something in the nomenclature that gives to us as a body the sense of corporate existence: Apprentice, Mate, Master, in the ancient and honourable craft of the sea.
1987, D. J. House, Seamanship Techniques, Volume 2, chapter heading,
Certificate of Competency for Master Mariner, Class 1