Your sea time counts the same as anyone's. Contracts, boat drills, watch schedules, safety musters, all of it logged the way it is on a tanker or a bulker, just performed with passengers watching. The Cruise Ship Seafarer Tattoo T-Shirt makes that point in the oldest visual language sailors have: classic tattoo flash, with a cruise ship drawn in heavy outlines and flat color. The linework treats the hull with the same respect flash artists gave the old windjammers.

Sailor tattoo tradition never asked what trade you sailed, only that you sailed. The old story says the ink marked miles, crossings, and survival, and cabin stewards crossed the same oceans as able seamen to earn it. Putting a cruise ship into traditional linework settles an argument some people still try to have: cruise crew are crew, and the tattoo style has always known it.

The trade brings its own credentials. Ten thousand meals a day at sea, drills that can empty a floating town in minutes, stabilizers working while the theater runs, and a crew list drawn from half the world's seafaring nations. A seafarer tattoo design carrying that ship type honors the departments the guests never see.

• Traditional tattoo linework around a modern cruise vessel
• Soft cotton for back of house shifts and port day walks
• Crisp print edges that outlast a nine month contract's laundry
• Sailor tattoo tradition claimed for the passenger trade

This cruise ship T-shirt fits hotel, deck, engine, galley, and entertainment alike, and it makes a proud ship crew gift for anyone flying home at sign off. Under a uniform shirt or on its own, it keeps its point either way. Wear it ashore and let the linework do the explaining.

100% pre-shrunk cotton, 170 to 180 g/m2, tube-knit body, double-needle seams, removable label.

YES, WE ARE CREW.

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Produced on demand and handed to the carrier within 1–3 business days. Typical delivery after dispatch: United States 3–7, Europe & UK 3–10, rest of the world 7–25 business days. Free standard shipping on orders over $75 (US), €75 (EU) or £65 (UK). Full details in our Shipping policy.

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