"A Medium in Which I Seek Relief": Manuscripts of American Sailors 1919-1940Main MenuIntroductionPublication IntroductionTranscriptionsThe SailorsBeginning of PathThe ShipsBeginning of PathContext & AnalysisBeginning of PathSources / CitationsBeginning of PathAnnie Tummino3ab49bb2dc491ebce8f162f5757538b6789c8434
The Greenhorn Experience
12020-03-30T17:44:10-07:00Annie Tummino3ab49bb2dc491ebce8f162f5757538b6789c8434331954Noteplain2020-04-03T12:21:30-07:00Annie Tummino3ab49bb2dc491ebce8f162f5757538b6789c8434A classic greenhorn experience. As Dana said in his own memoir, "Unintelligible orders were so rapidly given and so immediately executed; there was such a hurrying about, and such an intermingling of strange cries and stranger actions, that I was completely bewildered. There is not so helpless and pitiable an object in the world as a landsman beginning a sailor's life" (chapter one).