I'm having fun, doing another glossary of navalese,
from 'Their Lawful Occasions - Traffics and Discoveries.
There is a short passage in which Pyecroft says "I
sometimes think that me in a copper punt, single-'anded, 'ud beat a cutter-full
of De Rougemongs in a row round the fleet".
The implication is that Pyecroft was 'stalkier'
than most, but who was De Rougemont, please?
Alastair Wilson
