SHANGHAIED
Shanghaied! Many stirring stories of the sea have been written mind that word, one of the most terrilying in tho old sailor’s vocabulary. My own experience of being “shanghaied” by a crimp came about in this way (writes Edmund Cathcry. C.8.E., general secretary, 1891-1920,_ of the National Union of Seamen, in * TitBits’). I bad shipped in a small steamer carrying cargo between Havre and Antwerp. My wages were one guinea a week, and 1 bad to find my owm food. I served in this vessel for a few wmeks, and left her in Havre, a place over-ridden with crimps. X was “green” then, and I went to put up with one of them. 1 had been m this so-called boarding house for about four days. I can remember going in one evening to get my tea. It must have been drugged, for I can recollect nothing more of what happened. An I know is that next morning I found myself well out in the English Channel, lying in a bunk in a large, lull-rigged ship, with a bottle of French brandy for a pillow. I knew then that I had been shanghaied.
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Evening Star, Issue 19638, 18 August 1927, Page 9
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193SHANGHAIED Evening Star, Issue 19638, 18 August 1927, Page 9
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