Truck

The berthing area usually held 10 to 16 men, junior petty officers, and senior seamen. Each assigned a “Rack” or 2.5 ft wide and 6 ft long with a 2 inch thick mattress on a metal bed. These racks, two, sometimes three high, could be triced up to get them out of the way for cleaning underneath. 
When underway the roving watch was responsible for waking the next watch section.  They would approach each man gingerly and lightly touch him on the foot and say “Are you awake”. They would keep doing this until they received the response “Yes, I am awake” all the time trying not to wake anyone else. They never got too close, you never knew what a man was dreaming about, and the unwritten rule, was that if a man took a swing at you while coming out of a dream, it didn’t count, and he couldn’t be held responsible.
One of the junior petty officers was notorious for not getting up and to his watch station,  requiring a revisit by the roving watch, something they hated doing, especially after a long boring night. After repeated failures to get to his watch section on time, a  few of the junior seaman got together, So the guys got together and hatched their plan, I heard about it and made sure I was awake to see what happened.
One night, at about 2 in the morning, they crept up to his rack and slowly pulled back the privacy curtain,  it was an upper berth so they had full range of motion.  Once they were situated, and everything in place, they started to gently shake him, saying “Bill, wake up”, “Bill wake up”, -- when he opened his eyes, they turned on 2 flashlights, shinning them into his eyes, and yelled “WATCH OUT FOR THE TRUCK” then hit him in the face with a pillow.
He lost it, started screaming and crying, we lay in our racks and laughed so hard no one could go to sleep again for the night.
He was never late for watch again!