Gerald O’Driscoll (1886–1947) was an Irish sailor, journalist and humourist who also wrote under the pen-name ‘Geraldus’. A veteran of the Royal Navy, he wrote several best-selling books memorialising the sailor’s world, including
The Musings of a Merry Matloe (1927) and
Awful Disclosures of a Bluejacket (1929).
A Dictionary of Naval Slang, his last book, was published at the height of the Second World War.
For centuries the sailors of the Royal Navy have been famous for their colourful language. Trapped aboard leaky ships and creaking vessels for months, sometimes years, on end, the crews developed a peculiar language all of their own.Veteran sailor Gerald O'Driscoll celebrated the...
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