Dogsbody c. 1930, referring to people who were stuck with rough work. The term dogsbody has not always been derogatory, with a number of people deliberately using it as their callsign or handle. The most famous of these is probably Douglas Bader, who was an RAF fighter pilot during the Second World War. Dogsbody A dogsbody, or less commonly dog robber in the Royal Navy, is a junior officer, or more generally someone who does drudge work. A rough American equivalent would be a "gofer," "grunt" or "lackey". The Royal Navy used dried peas and eggs boiled in a bag (pease
Jessie Ace and Margaret Wright Jessie Ace and Margaret Wright Jessie Ace (1860–1936) and Margaret Wright (née Ace; 1854–1933) are known for their rescue of crewmen, from the Mumbles lifeboat, which had gone to assist a wrecked German barque during an 1883 storm at Mumbles Head, Wales. Ace and Wright were daughters of the Mumbles Lighthouse keeper Abraham Ace. On 27 January 1883, an 885-ton German barque named "Admiral Prinz Adalbert" of Danzig was caught in a storm in Mumbles Head and wrecked just below the lighthouse. The Mumbles lifeboat came to rescue the crew. When the Mumbles lifeboat, a wooden sailboat named the "Wolverhampton",