Cabin boy

Duties

Royal Navy officers

• Admiral of the Fleet Sir William Parker, 1st Baronet of Shenstone
• Admiral of the Fleet Sir Cloudsley Shovell
• Admiral Sir Francis Drake
• Admiral Sir John Hawkins
• Admiral Richard Deane
• Admiral William Rainsborough
• Admiral Sir William Penn
• Vice Admiral Lord Nelson
• Vice Admiral Sir William Batten
• Vice Admiral Sir John Lawson
• Vice Admiral Badilow
• Vice Admiral Sir Thomas Tiddeman
• Vice Admiral James Peacock
• Vice Admiral William Goodson
• Vice Admiral Sir Christopher Myngs
• Vice Admiral Sir John Harman
• Rear Admiral Sir John Berry
• Rear Admiral Sir Richard Stainer
• Rear Admiral Anthony Houlding
• Rear Admiral Deacons
• Rear Admiral Robert Sansum

  Notable cabin boys

• Matthew Henson, cabin boy at the age of 12. Went on to accompany Robert Peary in his Arctic explorations. Allegedly the first person to reach the North Pole.
• John Anglin, cabin boy who received the Medal of Honor during the American Civil War.
• Commodore John Barry, Barry would go on to serve in the American Revolutionary War and is known as "the Father of the American Navy."
• Hobart Bosworth, cabin boy on the Sovereign of the Seas who became a famous actor.
• Christian Franzen, cabin boy who served in the Wisconsin State Assembly.
• Michael Healy, cabin boy in 1854, who became the first African-American to command a ship of the United States Government.
• James Machon, cabin boy who received the Medal of Honor during the American Civil War.
• Thomas Nickerson, cabin boy on the Essex who later wrote about the shipwreck and subsequent three months of survival at sea.
• Frederick Pabst, cabin boy at the age of 14 and Great Lakes Captain at 21. Later became an American brewing pioneer and led Pabst Brewing Company into prominence in the late 1800s.
• John H. Paynter, cabin boy who enlisted in 1884, later became a real estate developer and writer of poetry and nonfiction, including the acclaimed Fugitive of the Pearl.
• John Ward Westcott, cabin boy at the age of 13 and a Great Lakes captain at 20. He developed a special vessel mail system.

  Popular culture

• Cori, de Scheepsjongen, a comics series by Belgian artist Bob de Moor about a cabin boy working for the Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie in the 16th century.
• Cabin Boy, a 1994 film.
• "Cabin Boy" a song by Tom Robinson from the 1984/1997 Castaway Northwest CNWVP006 album War Baby.
• Captain Pugwash, a British television children's animated series about a hapless captain and his crew; Tom, the cabin boy, is depicted as the most intelligent member of the crew.
• Treasure Island, where the main character Jim serves as a cabin boy on the board the ship the Hispaniola.
• "Cabin Boy", a short story by Damon Knight.
• Renaissance Festival, The Cabin Boys, Pirate Fire Comedy act from Minnesota.