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In the salty wayback, pin-holed eyelids were thought to improve a lookout's ability to detect icebergs. All ABs carried a pin-hole certificate in those days and the Titanic class also had a piercers's room where grommets would be fitted in the eye-holes of the duty lookouts before the watch changed.
(I've got a pair of Motorola's rigged up so I can do my watch from the fwd cocktail bar. I would say the boy would look after you but he's still got the aerials lowered as a mark of respect. He says he's family and can't turn-to for another few days yet - I think it's an excuse myself - perhaps the old man will let you use the moonphone, just don't be another that 'forgets' to mark it down for charging).
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David V
Lord Finchley tried to mend the electric light
Himself. It struck him dead and serve him right
It is the duty of the wealthy man
To give employment to the artisan
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