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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
the officer in charge of an organized search conducted by a search-and-rescue unit.
Quotations
1956
The RCAF searchmaster in charge of the hunt for the missing Trans-Canada Air Lines plane ... said today a search plane . . . may have sighted "what could have been wreckage."
1963
The searchmasters have good reason to complain if a search is prolonged unnecessarily.