Not a Ghost Story

 The Unseen Crew

If you go on a cruise, I would not these days with so many fires and breakdowns, you should recall that while the ship's officers are seen by the passengers; it is the unseen crew who run the ship. 

Somebody I once knew said something which is very true, he said "A Captain is only as good as his crew will let him be." After all, who does run the ship?

It isn't the officers in their finery, the stokers, who sweat down blow so the ship has power who run the ship. If they go on strike, you can have the best crew, but without power the ship won't move.

It was the same during World War 2, while the pilots, navigators and aircrew got the praises they deserved, a lot of the time it wa the ground crew who kept the aircraft flying, often with unorthodox means such as chewing gum.