prize-awarder's

Updated: May 19, 2025

Each table constitutes a mess, and there are prizes for the cleanest and best-arranged mess; so they arrange their knives, forks, and spoons in a design calculated to catch the prize-awarder's eye. And, incidentally, this idea of giving prizes for the best-kept mess is followed throughout the service. Each day is started with prayer on the quarter-deck, and an impressive ceremony it is.

Mordaunt Hall - Some Naval Yarns