On a recruit's reception aboard the guardship

[sharpiefan]

"My advent in the guardship as a marine recruit was of a very different nature to my first experience as a volunteer in the naval service, for all of the new hands were at once put into the regular messes of the marines on board, and everything was done that the nature of our rather limited arrangements would admit of to make us comfortable."
Daniel Goodall, Salt Water Sketches; Being Incidents in the Life of Daniel Goodall, quoted in Jack Tar by Roy and Lesley Adkins, chapter entitled Learning the Ropes (p29 my copy)

I KNEW the name 'Goodall' was familiar! :D