Shanties Never Sung: Chapter IV of When the Dogwood Blooms:

Once, supposedly as well, when the Engineer approached the nuke sailor known as canine feces, who in the engine room was wearing an olive-green, webbed duty belt and with pen in hand also carried a clipboard, the rutabaga-haired officer asked, "Are you on watch?"

To which D*gsh*it responded, "No, sir, I'm just wearing this belt because I think it's pretty on me."

Likewise, once when the Captain asked if the sailor had anything to say for himself, the nuke replied, "Well Captain, I guess I'm all fucked up!"

"By the way, why do you all call D*gsh*it D*gsh*it?" Ray asked the good-looking-in-drag Torpedoman, recalling names bestowed upon himself, during Ray's prep school days.

This age-old question is answered in Shanties Never Sung Chapter IV of When the Dogwood Blooms, is semi humorous and sometimes sad vignettes of the when the protagonist, Raymond Burns Herbert, was a submarine sonar tech. It was a time of adventures around the world, as he continued on this part of his life odyssey.