Review* I'd posted previously at RR elsewhere but still raises a smile.
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A STOKER'S LOG.
Experiences in the Navy, 1915-18. by Henry Vincent
"…The society to which Mr. Vincent introduces us is blackguardly and squalid.
A hierarchy of warrant officers, petty officers, masters at arms and ship's corporals maintain a loose discipline over a crowd of low roughs.
The commissioned officers who are set in authority over this drunken rabble quarrel savagely among themselves, over their parochial concerns.
The stokers and lower deckmen do, it is true, cultivate a few pagan virtues: generosity and a sense of responsibility to their community; but their habits are disgusting and their way of life objectionable…">>
*Reviewed 90 years ago at Pages 838/839 of the Naval Review Issue 1929-4

Apparently those Pagan Virtues continue but has anything else changed...?