Heart of Oak Quotes

“That and rum and tobacco—and being boys, we were not entitled to the rum. ‘Rum, bum and baccy.’ And that was why ‘bum’ was included—that, and not buggery, as the landsmen thought.”
― Tristan Jones, Heart of Oak

“Ganges. On board, the otherwise unwanted lads of Britain—the waifs, the strays, the abandoned bastards, the untameable, the Artful Dodgers of Queen Victoria’s realm—the so-called scum of British earth, were bullied, beaten, bashed, scourged, half-starved, tormented, pummelled, lashed, keelhauled, cudgelled, thrashed, swinged, trounced, lambasted, hurt, manhandled, battered, thumped, scared and terrorized into a total submission to the almighty will of My Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty.”
― Tristan Jones, Heart of Oak