“Creosote dumps” and all the rest isn't amateur or professional anything. It's just gossip. THere wasn't an attempt at history.

Shanties I would file under pseudo-scholarship.

The hard science on how not to jerk things around at work would fill a medium-sized library. Lifts, cranes, hull design; banking tracks race & rail; sorting your left from right-handed snail? There's an equation for that.

But in a century+ of study, there is no body of naval science, metrology or engineering on shanties to date. Still checking tho. The naval history, devoid of the Reformation, celeusma, locomotive lecture &c &c &c and/or a clear scope - "needs improvement" to meet accurate or reliable.

Etymology, mercy me, we got.