Lighter-

And I was just reading about a book by a chief salvage officer describing his experience raising ships and repairing them in the harbor of Massawa, Eritrea, in 1942, after the Italians had sabotaged the port. The relevant part is that the Eritrean work crews who scrapped off the bottoms of the ships did their work much more efficiently when they used their shanties. Of course he failed to note what they were singing, describing them as "primitive jungle chants."

Richard-

There's nothing like a "shanty raid" to lift the spirits.

Charley Noble