A collection of poems, quotations and little hairy literary things

• Quotations of the famous and not-so-famous

  • Admiral Arleigh A. Burke, on Destroyermen
  • John Steinbeck, on Destroyers

• Poems, recitations and ramblings

  • 1943 Dispatch entitled “A Destroyer” – John Steinbeck
  • Forever in our Hearts – Anne M. Eacret
  • “The Snipe’s Lament” or “The Stoker’s Lament “Ode to a Snipe” or “The Men who Sail Below” (take your pick) – Anonymous
  • What’s it Like to be in the Navy? – Jack Summers, OI Div 1970
  • Geezers– Anonymous
  • Blue Water Navy Truism – from an old carrier sailor
  • The Watch – anonymous
  • Until We Meet Again – ©2016 George Mansford, reprinted by permission

• Recollections

  • An old Hancock Sailor still hears calls over the old familiar Bitch Box… – Anonymous
  • What Do You Say to a Naked Waiter – from Honolulu Star-Bulletin, Friday Jan 5, 1973