# Chips — Two Years Before the Mast character guide

> Chips in Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana Jr..

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Poor Chips

**First appearance:** 0004-ii

## Who they are

The ship's carpenter on the Pilgrim, a skilled but quiet man.

## In the story

### [Chapter XXIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/two_years_before_the_mast_se/chapters/xxiii)

The carpenter, a Swede by birth, sometimes musters in the starboard watch and is accounted the best helmsman in the ship.

### [XXVIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/two_years_before_the_mast_se/chapters/xxviii)

Deeply dejected after receiving no letter from his wife; the sailmaker tries to console him with a story of his own marital betrayal.

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