Possible Clues:

• Joins in, taking time for craft
• Crew on board in vessel
• Direction taken by meandering Thames to one port for The Queen Mary, for example?
• The old SS had power to move you
• Small crew's in big boat
• Cooks fruit in old vessel
• Cooks with fashionable vessel
• Second mate's at sea in boat
• Cooks fruit in packet, perhaps
• Titanic, possibly, the start of Hard Times: pa’s awful!