six-thousand-ton

Updated: July 15, 2025

I think I see myself shipping first class on a six-thousand-ton hotel, and asking the third engineer what makes the engines go round, and whether it isn't very warm in the stokehold. Ho! ho! I should ship as a loafer if ever I shipped at all, which I'm not going to do. I shall compromise, and go for a small trip to begin with. 'That's something at any rate. Where will you go? said Torpenhow.

Rudyard Kipling - The Light That Failed