Cabin boy
Low-ranking young male assistant on a ship / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Not to be confused with Cabana boy.
For other uses, see Cabin boy (disambiguation).
A cabin boy or ship's boy is a boy (in the sense of low-ranking young male employee, not always a minor in the juridical sense) who waits on the officers and passengers of a ship,[1] especially running errands for the captain. The modern merchant navy successor to the cabin boy is the steward's assistant.