Margaret Walsh (Aldershot: Ashgate, 1999), 84–101. Eric Partridge (London: Scholartis, 1929), 202.įor reflections on the meaning and broader context of passages like this one, see Valerie Burton, “‘Whoring, Drinking Sailors’: Reflections on Masculinity from the Labour History of Nineteenth-Century British Shipping,” in Working Out Gender: Perspectives from Labour History, ed. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.Ĭharles Reece Pemberton, The Autobiography of Pel. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. A shot locker on a ship was where the cannon balls were stored. Women were ships that had to be “taken” money was a form of ammunition, as the sailor’s common expression for cash at hand, “shot in the locker,” indicated. In the heat of combat, the sailor felt “like a fellow in a tavern, who, when he is in the third heaven of jollity, smashes tables and chairs, dishes and glasses-dashes his fists through the door-panels and the windows, all senseless of the scarifying and bruises he inflicts upon himself in the indulgence of his fun.” 1 If Pemberton confused war at sea with revelry in port, sailors also had trouble differentiating between amorous pursuits and armed combat. Charles Pemberton, describing the thrill of a battle at sea, likened the experience to a destructive drunken spree.
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