James the cat:
Probably turn the ships engine off because it’s disturbing his sleep. Ray and his men would wake up drifting up the Thames ars end first, having gone to bed off Bermuda.
Warm cabin and the throb 
…of the engine was what used to send me off to sleep when using the ferry many years ago, that and the sound of the waves smashing the old tubs about in the Bay of Biscuit…