Teenage pirate cabin boy, helped the cook in the galley and carried meals to the seamen in the mess deck (where the crew ate their meals) and to the officers in their quarters aft. On big ships, they carried messages back and forth between officers and the rest of the crew, who occupied different parts of the ship, scrappy little survivor whose toughness belies his diminutive size, but it turns out that there is a touch of the hero in this young pirate.