USS Cushing is coming home from the Persian Gulf on a course through the Malacca Strait. Cushing's a good ship, a Spruance-class destroyer: lean, fast, and armed to the teeth, with a few Special Weapons in its magazine. It's been assigned to carry a ...
There is nothing like a good sea shanty—or chanty, as it was originally called—to transport one to a different time, place, and mood. After all, few have a more powerful need to relieve boredom, weariness, fear, and loneliness than sailo...