Shellbacks Poems - Poems about Shellbacks

...Photo by US Navy WestPack Album—Gorelick 2nd top right “Not Squared-Away” Crawling and sliding through slimy debris Knees scraped raw on the gritty ......Read the rest...

...Deep within the golden hue of varnished cockpit, we sat, stood, and knelt for twenty four days, supported by the salt of the deep sapphire Pacific. The bright white billowy sails became the wing......Read the rest...

...We're going back from whence we came Answering her ancient call It's almost as if she whispers our name That she knows and owns us all Salt in the blood still proves the link Urging hearts to so......Read the rest...

...WHALING IN 1844 All hands came aboard In March we left Deptford Bound for Greenland’s whales and Rather it was Wales’s green land. The lookout on the mainmast tied Saw her ......Read the rest...