Boatswain the final scene. "Typhoon" by Joseph Conrad has a nameless boatswain who tells Captain MacWhirr of a "lump" of men going overboard during the peak of the storm. Also, the character Bill Bobstay in Gilbert and Sullivan's musical comedy "H.M.S. Pinafore" is alternatively referred to as a "bos'un" and a "boatswain's mate." Another boatswain from literature is Smee from "Peter Pan". Lord Byron had a Newfoundland dog named Boatswain. Byron wrote the famous poem "Epitaph to a Dog" and had a monument made for him at Newstead Abbey. Quartermaster is the highest rank in the Sea Scouts, BSA, an older
Operation Boatswain seen, by the Yarkon River in Tel Aviv.However, not until January 2015 did Archivist of AJEX and historian, Martin Sugarman, succeed after a long campaign, in persuading the Commonwealth War Graves Commission in formally commemorating the 23 Palmach men on their web site and also the inscribing of all their names on the Memorial to the Missing at Brookwood, Surrey. In this he was assisted by Col Neri Areli of the IDF Missing in Action Commission. Operation Boatswain Operation Boatswain was the first of the operational missions carried out by the Palmach as part of the cooperation between the Jewish