INFORMATION DISCOVERY
The ship is described as being far from any shore, with its crew celebrating Christmas and sharing kindness, serving as a setting for the Spirit's journey with Scrooge.
SHIP
Again the Ghost sped on, above the black and heaving sea--on, on--until being far away, as he told Scrooge, from any shore, they lighted on a ship. They stood beside the helmsman at the wheel, the look-out in the bow, the officers who had the watch; dark, ghostly figures in their several stations; but every man among them hummed a Christmas tune, or had a Christmas thought, or spoke below his breath to his companion of some bygone Christmas Day, with homeward hopes belonging to it.