ha-a-ands

Updated: May 26, 2025

By and by, bang, bang, bang, on the scuttle, ``All ha-a-ands, aho-o-y! We spring out of our berths, clap on a monkey-jacket and southwester, and tumble up the ladder. Mate up before us, and on the forecastle, singing out like a roaring bull; the captain singing out on the quarter-deck, and the second mate yelling, like a hyena, in the waist.

Richard Henry Dana - Two Years Before the Mast

"Aye, aye, sir," replied Jorrocks; and quickly his familiar hail rang out fore and aft, as he rapped on the scuttle forwards "All ha-a-ands take in sail!"

John C. (John Conroy) Hutcheson - On Board the Esmeralda: Martin Leigh's Log - A Sea Story

The second mate holds on to the main top-gallant sail until a heavy sea is shipped, and washes over the forecastle as though the whole ocean had come aboard; when a noise further aft shows that that sail, too, is taking in. After this, the ship is more easy for a time; two bells are struck, and we try to get a little sleep. By-and-by, bang, bang, bang, on the scuttle "All ha-a-ands, a ho-o-y!"

Richard Henry Dana - Two Years Before the Mast