Hi Trampshipman here is what I wrote earlier, there were no stokers in the MN only in the RN....
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Stoker was never used when I was at sea, down below the man who fed the fires on a coal burning Steam ship was always known as a Fireman, He fed the furnaces, raked and sliced to get rid of the clinker to keep the fires burning correctly to get the maximum heat out of the coal. The man who carried the coal from the bunkers to the plates where the Fireman worked was known as a Trimmer, later on when ships became oil burning the name Fireman still applied. The Fireman tended the boilers, changing the Tips on the burners every watch, watching the PSI and the water levels.
Greaser was the name given to the man who tended the diesel engines.
I did a "Firemans" job on one coal burning steam ship and on a T2 tanker, oil burner as
"Fireman Water Tender "./
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