Possible Clues:

• A seaman stole this empty wagon
• Petty officer stole two shillings taken aboard
• Vessel has lover on it: one of the crew?
• Word that can be shortened to four letters and two apostrophes
• Crew's foreman's from Botswana, I suspect
• Petty officer stole this empty wagon
• Crew foreman in Oban: it was rough
• Awkwardly sat in bow clutching a sailor
• What "bosun" is short for
• What 'bosun' is short for