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1821, Owen Chase, Narrative of the Most Extraordinary and Distressing Shipwreck of the Whale-Ship Essex …:
On the second day out, while sailing moderately on our course in the Gulf Stream, a sudden squall of wind struck the ship from the SW. and knocked her completely on her beam-ends, stove one of our boats, entirely destroyed two others, and threw down the cambouse.
1841, Journal of the Franklin Institute, page 113:
This stove is to be made in the form of a Franklin, but is to be furnished with an oven, and other means of cooking; its appearance is therefore more like that of the old fashioned caboose, than of a Franklin stove.
1881, Eliza Davies, The Story of an Earnest Life, page 226:
A tremendous billow, fringed with foam, swept over our deck, carrying the cook's caboose, cooking utensils and stove right overboard into the sea.
2002, Don Philpott, Cayman Islands:
The kitchens were kept separate because cooking was done in a caboose, a wooden box filled with sand and heated by a wood fire.
