seakindliness

Updated: July 21, 2026

There was really more danger in this than in any lack of seakindliness on the part of the vessel. Each time she ran away from a treacherous-looking breaker, the captain would pat the topgallant bulwarks and speak words of touching tenderness as though he was communing with a little child. The further they ran north, the bigger the seas became.

Baron Walter Runciman Runciman - The Shellback's Progress: In the Nineteenth Century