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...to be collected; they were still personal items belonging the crew. Samuel Johnson declared that 'No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to...jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail with a chance of being drowned'. Wrecks are the result of a catastrophe and sometimes the victims remain...

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...1993), 4-5. 26. "Why Sir, No man will be a Sailor if he has contrivance enough to get himself into jail; for, being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned." James Boswell, Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, ed. by R. Chapman (Oxford: Oxford University Press,...

...British man of letters Dr Samuel Johnson, Wo man will be a sailor who has contrivance to get himself into jail. For being in a ship is being in a jail with the chance of being drowned! A man in jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company. ' The crew of the Roebuck saw...

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...difficulties of life at sea merely added to a commander's stress. As Samuel Johnson famously remarked, "No man will be a sailor, who has contrivance enough to...ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned."18 And in some sense Johnson was right, especially regarding ordinary seamen. The men were...

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