They've had no chance.... We can no more than drive and steer her, and so forth; but if we have rough weather this trip - it's likely - she'll learn the rest by heart!"
The deck-beams, the stringers,[2] the garboard-strake,[3] the triple-expansion engine and other parts, have particular functions, and their characters are correspondingly distinct.
The Steam, who "had been to sea many times before... he used to spend his leisure ashore in a cloud, or a gutter..." makes many comments on the conditions and the various complaints.
As the Dimbula enter the Port of New York, the ship's parts stop talking and after a long silence there is a "new, big voice....
A commentator writes "From the standpoint of world history, two of Britain's most important activities in the nineteenth century were those of industrialism and imperialism, both of which had been neglected by literature prior to Kipling's advent."