Identify Please This Postcard #2

Where is this place and What is depicted on this postcard?
Thanks

The writing looks German?

A ship at sea and a sailor working.

I can read part of the message, but that's no help in IDing what it is. The Kurrentschrift is tough in places -- particularly because it's not quite textbook and I think he dropped a letter in the last word -- but here's my best guess:

That doesn't translate well to my English-speaking ears, though.

On the still ocean - closer to home than the ship's stoker

Perhaps a native speaker on here could take a stab.

Postmaster,

You kind of got it right, just the word "als" is confusing you. I would say a 'pass' for German.

Stiller Ozean is one of the Germanic names for the Pacific Ocean.

Stiller (quiet, masculine) ==> Pazifischer (Pacific).

auf + der ==> dem Stille + n Ozean translates to "on the Pacific Ocean."

'dem,' not 'den.' 'Auf dem' is locating him. 'Auf den' makes him climb it, as that means 'moving upon.'

'Als' means 'as' not 'than' in this case.

"On the Pacific Ocean, closer to home as ship's stoker."

Mind you, moving upon the Pacific is possible in the sense that it would then read

"Towards the Pacific Ocean closer to home as ship's stoker."
But considering the Americas are on the Pacific coast, he would be in port in the Americas or sailing east. In the latter case, the next question would be where is home? Or is he stating he is on a journey that, eventually, takes him home?

Thanks for the edits. I always have trouble with certain letters in Kurrent because they all look the same with rushed handwriting -- "c", "e", "m", "n", and sometimes "r".

Interesting,
that explains the perhaps, dirty visage of the subject.

I was initially confused, the ships bollards are huge, yet in the background
it appeared to be rope ladders for sail craft.

A "ship's stoker" was an horrific job, personally shovelling coal, into
furnaces for the steam engines, exceedingly hot, and filthy work.