Word: boatswain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Senior Commissioned Boatswain George Wookey of the British navy went over the side of the experimental diving ship H.M.S. Reclaim, he knew he was headed for a trying experience. The Reclaim was anchored in a cold Norwegian fiord, and on the bottom, at 600 ft. below the surface, was a steel table. Boatswain Wookey's job was to descend to the table in an ordinary diving suit and stay there for a specified time. If he accomplished this and survived, he would break the diving record by a wide margin...
Navy enlisted man, dredges up a Neanderthal boatswain's mate named Farragut Jones who speaks basic English, all of it four-letter unprintables. Marblehead copes with a case of "ultimate fraternization" or "love-by that I mean plain, raw, unadulterated sex" between a yeoman and a nurse. He sits out an enlisted men's "mutiny" (they want 14 bottles of beer once a week, rather than two a day) and a correspondent's revolt (he wants his sheets changed every day), but almost founders under the first news of the atomic bomb ("That Air Force propaganda mill...
...used to home and having his own room and all we have to draw on are American boys." Among the Carronade's 137 crewmen and seven officers, only the newest apprentice seamen were blase about their ship. The oldtimers were astounded. "I can walk around," said Boatswain's Mate Bill Smith, who is 6 ft. 6 in. tall, and weighs 240 Ibs. "Look at my head miss the overhead. That pastel green overhead. That Sarasota sand overhead. I've had a stiff neck for 13 years...
LAURIE YOUNG, one of the last of the great steeplejacks relaxes in his boatswain's chair and appraises the condition of the weather-worn vane atop Memorial Church...
...years at sea he had developed a fondness for quarterdeck sermons and main-deck floggings. He was aroused by the slightest threat to his position, and he soon hated Midshipman Spencer. As the cruise wore on, Spencer remained moodily aloof from his fellow middies, plied his cronies, Boatswain's Mate Sam Cromwell and Seaman Elisha Small, with illicit brandy and cigars. Soon Spencer was poring over charts of the West Indies, boasting wildly that he would take over the Somers and become a buccaneer...