Conditions were horrendous aboard most British naval vessels at the time. Scurvy and other diseases ran rampant, killing more seamen each year than all other causes combined, including combat.

Once out of the wire, the pilot would follow the hand signals of a Yellow Shirt, a sailor wearing a yellow shirt, to the parking place picked out with great care by another intense group of people playing musical chairs with airplanes from a room in the island on the same level as the flight deck.

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Clad in doublet and hose, and boots of Cordovan leather, / Strode, with a martial air, Miles Standish the Puritan Captain.