With a deck crew on a Lascar crewed ship you had a right mixture of names and so called duties , kalassi 1 and 2 were the two grades of seamen. Winch wallah there could be more than one drove the deck winches , the deck topaz swept the decks and cleaned the toilets he was usually an untouchable, The Serang led this motley crew with his henchmen the Tindal the bosuns mate , and the Cassab the storekeeper. The ships carpenter usually Chinese or Indian seemed to have a distance between him and the rest of them , the same as the Secunnys the QMs who only did bridge and gangway duties. They all came from Bombay together with the proper paperwork and fingerprints which was what they used for signatures . The cooks of which there could be different ones for different departments were called Bhandarrys , and the Chief Steward was the Butla , stewards were stewards and ever more shall be so, the Christian ones were usually Goanese. So Keith be sure to spell your name correct or you maybe next in line for the Serangs job. Cheers JS