cabin-boys
Young maritime servants
Cabin-boys is the plural of cabin-boy, a young male servant on a ship who attends to the officers and passengers.
The role was common in the age of sail, when boys as young as ten might serve aboard merchant or naval vessels: The cabin-boys scrubbed the captain's quarters.
The term now appears mainly in historical fiction and nautical histories.
Seagoing transport vessel
- sailorSeafaring crew member
- deckShip's flat surface
- vesselReceptacle for contents
- galleyOnboard food preparation area
crew · captain · midshipman · seaman · voyage · naval · mast · rigging
One employed to serve
- apprenticeLearner bound to employer
- errandShort task away from home
- choresRoutine household tasks
- dutiesRequired tasks or charges
fetching · carrying · menial · labor · orders · subordinate · master · obedience
Maritime military force
- 18th-centuryThe seventeen hundreds
- VictorianOf a prim era
- colonialOf occupied territories
- explorationTraveling through unknown regions
press-gang · seafaring · enlisted · conscription · galleon · frigate · privateer · clipper
Risky exciting undertaking
- pirateMaritime thief or bootlegger
- swashbucklerDaring, flamboyant swordsman
- coming-of-ageYouth becoming adulthood
- StevensonScottish family name
ship
Seagoing transport vessel
galley · crew · captain · midshipman · seaman · voyage · naval · mast · rigging · quarters
servant
One employed to serve
- apprenticeLearner bound to employer
- errandShort task away from home
- choresRoutine household tasks
duties · fetching · carrying · menial · labor · orders · subordinate · master · obedience · training
navy
Maritime military force
- 18th-centuryThe seventeen hundreds
- VictorianOf a prim era
- colonialOf occupied territories
exploration · press-gang · seafaring · enlisted · conscription · galleon · frigate · privateer · clipper
adventure
Risky exciting undertaking
- pirateMaritime thief or bootlegger
- swashbucklerDaring, flamboyant swordsman
- coming-of-ageYouth becoming adulthood
Stevenson · stowaway · protagonist · bildungsroman · Moby-Dick
cabin-boysofficers
Those holding authority
captains · captain · ship captains · ship's captain · admirals
cabin-boyshelmsmen
Those steering vessels
captain · navigators · gunners · officers · passengers
cabin, boy, cabins, boys, boyish, boyhood, boyishly, cabana, cabinet