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Six Brown Brothers
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Happy--One Step
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My Isfe of Golden Dreams Waliz-
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THE HONGKONG
TELEGRAPH.
SAILING SHIP DAYS.
Old Times Recalled.
interest:
THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 24. 1921.
Indian considored themselves
no
and knowing all these shanties into what was known to us as quite well, I undertook to correct" duff" Tuesday. Churday and my neighbour, so tapping him on Saturday; a small portion of fresh the patches (the only part I could tinned meat on Saturday in place reach when he bent for a pall) of the salt beof or pork. In I may s woll In view of our recent comments said: The chorus of this song passing on the subject of tea clippers and is Whisky Johnnie', not 'Whisky mention that the smell created sailing ship days, the following Annie. At this he turned round by the opening of those Balt Vatboef or pork casks could only be extracts from an article which and said with a snap.
Needless to say, equalled to a sniff of Singapore we tako from the Nautical ye say?"
at low water-perhaps Magazine of March, 1917, writton didn't repeat the correction, but River by one of the oldest and best-came to the conclusion that the some of your readers know it. known skippers on the China old gentleman hadn't a proper Biscuits, which were inhabited by Coast, will no doubt be read with grip of the English language, if various broods of live stock, were be bad of the maintopsail served out ad lib., and if the whack halliards, especially when I was of beef or pork didn't last till the I think I can claim the dis-told by A moro experienced next day, one had just to content tinction of being the last of a long apprentice that he was singing oneself with a biscuit washed line of descendants connected Whisky
Yonnie" and not down in the morning by coffee with the famous Aberdeen Clip-"Whisky Annie." This was my and in the afternoon by black tea. per Line, I can carry it back introduction to the alien seaman If the weekly allowance of Bugar much further than those who on British ships.
had gone done, then these have recently corresponded with
decoctions had to be taken Our crew on this occasion!
without. There WES Six Brown Brothers you on that subject (not from my
composed own knowlodge, you will note) was
entirely of milk or butter for the scamen of West indian for my great-grandfather was Soandinvians,
that day. We got along, how. Degroes. The one of the first captains George and American
ever. The boys of the afternoon Thompson and Co. bad, and West
portion, of watch below used to make a he finished long before the course, Smith's Orchestra days of the "Thermopylae" British and so would the latter ifness (and it was a mess too) for and "Patriarch," the period your they could have got away with it.all hands at ton time. Sometimes i was "cracker bash," some- correspondents usually start. They were all right in their way
times, "dog'e body," and some- Smith's Orchestra refer to the days of the "Scottish as long as the weather was warm
Maid" and "Prince of Wales," and they could stamp away with times "dandyfunk." The youn- both of which my great-grand. the end of a jib or to gallant Rest boy of the watch below father commanded, and Oliver halliard, and yip, yipped as they would go on the foe'sle head Ferera & Franchini Cromwell" and "Ohmar Pasha," stamped, or give lip to the "Rio with a canvas bag (made for the
with purpose) filled both commanded by my grand-Grande" or "Goodbye Fare-ye-which bad been swept as clean unelo. That was in the very well" when heaving up the Blue & White Marimba Band young days of the famous line. anchor, with the old gin-jig wind-as possible with a boot brush, or Then came the "Transatlantic," ass Sydney Harbour, or giving anything which came handy, "Queen of Nations," commanded the pumps a shake up after and armed with a serving mallet or broken dignum vitae fid procur- 12th Street Rag-Fox Trot
All Star Trios my father," Maid of Judah," washing decks on a Saturdayed from the sailmaker and with
"Damascus," "Nineveh " and afternoon. But--Oh my! when it "Ascalon," and thon the came to all hands muzzling the the anchor shank as an anvil, Dotty Dimples One Step
All Star Trio Thermopylae" and immediately foresail or the upper maine sait hammer the biscuits till they were after her, the "Centurion," which in a gale of wind off the Horn, pounded into the smallest partic I myself was connected with or Cape of Good Hope in the les imaginable, all the largest during her 24 years of existence, winter, the "cultur pusson," as pieces being carefully a fted out, I stood in the building yard of he styled himself, was one of the and if required, hammered again. Walter Hood & Co., Aberdoon most holpless creatures one could As much as could be spared of (where mostly all of the famous imagine. There you would find the day's allowance of salt beef clippers were built) a little boy him, muffled up in all hu pos- was then minced up with the cook's chopper, which he of six years old, and saw her nessed, the whole covered overt launched in the spring of 1869, and by his oilskins and large leather used indiscriminately for break-
ing
cutting wood, coal, this is น clearly impressed seaboots, dodging around trying
my mind 05
if it had his hardest to be the last on the up a sheep, when one had been killed for the "afterguard." happened yesterday. My father yard, so that he would not have stood on the fo'o'sle head as she to move out from the slings. Of Water was then used to maisten left the ways. He had been course if two or three succeeded this mixture till it was a thick smart boy had looking after the building of her in this they were generally paste, and if and took command, but only lived shifted by some big Dane or been able to annex a few onions:
from the steward's store, these to make one complete voyage to Norwegian.
were also cut up and mixed with Australia and back. He died on
Ah yes, "Mr. Johnson or the other ingredients. The whole the second voyago just before" Mr. Clayton" was ย very was then put in a tin, and if the reaching the English Channel. different proposition at those cook felt like being obliging he It was his ambition to beat the times than he was whoo the baked it in the oven and it was record of the " Thermopylae," but topmast, to gallant, and royal really enjoyed.
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he never achieved this, although stunsails were set.
I have records atill, where
or
biscuit,
"Dug's body" was another
she made 360, 348, and 350 knots over the ground (three days in particulars of the many neck-to-biscuit, but simply mixed in a
neck
racon I have witnessed paste with the remainder of the succession) running the easting down to Australia. The second between some of the fiuost ships day's pea soup, the whole being of their day from the smart little placed in a tin with several pieces mate who was over me as antea clipper to the heavy wood of pork rind placed on the top and apprentice in the same ship was bo's'n of her then, and he told me drogher; of how I have seen 18 baked in the oven; a sort of sub- for bacon and beane they set the main to gellant sail ships homeward bound from all stituto
as "Boston leaving the Downs on the first parts of the world becalmed for a commonly known
close to each other brain food," but without the bacon voyage and never once started week
and the and the beans. the sheets fill they were sailing in the Doldrums,
**St. ship
Lawrence," into Neutral Buth Sydney
'Dandyfunk" was a species of a vessel of the old frigate cake made of broken biscuits and Harbour, after a 69 days' passage from London.
type with painted ports and
syrup, but as syrup was scarce large netting under her jibboom, and sugar ditto, this was As my time came round, creep quietly along round all the often indulged in. So on we wont joined the old ship as an ap fleet, simply by the flap of her year in year out, as happy as the prentice, and went through four sails, while all the others were proverbial sandboy,
I shall not at present go into dainty, also consisting of broken
vld
A
not
Now to the sustenance of the
of the hardest, (looking back on turning round and round in the them) happiest year of my life, on same spot, and invite the captains) the Australian and China trade, of the various ships to dinner present day cadet, as he has to one voyage to Australia and later on; of how 10 to 15 of us put up with it in the Far. East. home with wool, and the next to have again met in the English to attend on him, and an electric Apart from his having a servant Sydney, thence to China for tea Channel, and thrashed up against fan to keep him cool in his cabin, and home. Those were indeed an easterly wind with the
On
OC-
BREAKFAST, 5/11/16-8 a.m. Porridge and milk.
Fried fish,
Ham and eggs. Grilled. Steak. Cold boiled mutton. Cold brawn.
Potatoes. Beef curry and rice. Jam, tea, coffee. Fruit.
the days when a sailor's life famous "Star of Greece" in the he sits down in the saloon to was--well, not what it is to- running. Of how on one
menus on the following lines. day. Your correspondent, Curtis casion, drifting up the English (These are taken haphazard from Brown, depicts it so faithfully in Channel in a dense fog för a back filos):-- last year's January number, that week, the fog suddenly cleared it would be useless for me to try one morning, and revealed 79 and better it; but one little item, square-rigged ships all in sight re the shanties he quates, as of each other, a picture that will having the power to brigg a catch never be seen again. Of how the at the heart of any old sailor, who good ship Centurion," while I might bear them now, brings back was chief mate of her, on the an incident which happened on 17th January, 1887, at 1.30 a.m. my first voyage, which not only went the North Head at brought a catch at my youthful Sydney, and sank in fifteen heart, but stamped itself so minutes in 18 fathoms. With indelibly on my mind that I'll the loss of the smart little ship| remember it if I live to be 150. my 24 years' connection with her We were just about to cast ceased; indeed, I may say my the tow boat off in the Downe, connection with the old life. and all bands and the cook were
But a word bofore closing on hoisting the topsails. The main- tasull balliards-at which I tailed the different conditions of living on--were, of, conse, stretched the apprentice of the present day along forward on the starboard cadet as he is called--has to side, and the foretopsail halliards face, in comparison with le fortunate brother of aft on the port side. Both topadil
no doubti were going up together, and the forty years ago will shanty joined in by both sides interest any of the old hands who may now be lying back was the well-known one, "Whisky for my Johnnie "—
on their cars, and will satisfy the parents of the said cadet that.. Whisky is the life of man, as far as food is concerned, they Whisky for my Johnnie, have nothing to worry about, and Immediately in front of me was if through force of circumstances, the dying out of the
a great ponderous Swede named and
cannot
LUNCH.
10/11/16-Noon.
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Mutton Hotpot. Coli brawn.
Potatoes. Mutton curry and rice. Guia Malacca. Fruit, cheese, coffee.
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