ship-gossip

Updated: May 19, 2025

Often the crowd of quarrelsome candidates wrangle and fight for precedency, while at all times the interval is employed by the garrulous in every variety of ship-gossip. As the shaving days are unalterable, they often fall upon days of high seas and tempestuous winds, when the vessel pitches and rolls in a frightful manner.

Herman Melville - White Jacket: or, the World on a Man-of-War