h'admiral

Updated: July 15, 2025

"I tell 'ee wot, Tom," said Larrikins to me on our going down to the lower deck just then, the `disperse' having sounded, and it being our watch below, "she's gone h'off fur to tell the h'admiral o' the bloomin' mess we've made on it!"

John C. (John Conroy) Hutcheson - Young Tom Bowling: The Boys of the British Navy