randy-woo

Updated: June 9, 2025

In those days only the marines and boys were drafted to ships when first commissioned, the compliment having to be made up as hands volunteered to join in response to the bills inviting enrolment that were stuck up in some selected public-house or tavern ashore, which, as the master-at-arms told me, was called the "Randy-woo!"

John C. (John Conroy) Hutcheson - Crown and Anchor: Under the Pen'ant