The exterior of the Maritime Museum.
Some of the slang used by sailors, although it was the lime-juicers bit that interested me. I was aware of the phrase ‘limeys’ for British sailors because of the lime juice (although it was initially lemon juice which actually has much more vitamin C, so the switch wasn’t entirely ideal) that was used to prevent scurvy.
It transpires that the term was originally lime-juicers and this came to be used from around the 1850s to describe British sailors. The shortening to limeys took place around the 1870s and then it became to be used to describe British people in general in the late nineteenth century and the early twentieth century.