Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(Aus./US) bed.

1775		in B.J. Bartlett Early Amer. Proverbs (1977) 35: I steered my course for Blanket Bay, within School Cape.
1821		‘A Real Paddy’ Real Life in Ireland 143: Shaughnessy [...] finding Gramachree half seas over, had taken the liberty of bringing him to an anchor in Blanket Bay.
1851		Melville Moby Dick (1907) 150: Hist, boys! lets have a jig or two before we ride to anchor in Blanket Bay.
1870		Australian Town & Country Jrnl 23 July 25/3: Pertinacious ‘touts’ don't need such an early start [...] but can take their ease, at their inn [...] and revel in ‘tea and feathers’ in blanket bay till at least 7 30 a.m.
1880		Burra Record 26 Nov. 3/4: At 11 p.m. after having put my finger down my throat about twenty times I gave it up as a bad job, and retired to ‘blanket bay’ with feelings too peculiar to graphically describe.
1890		Goulburn Herald 1 May 3/1: Having partaken of a hearty meal we resorted for an hour or two to a quiet game of euchre, after which it was deemed a wise thing to go to ‘Blanket Bay’.
1900		Bulletin (Sydney) 1 Sept. 31/4: Unlike the nursery-rhyme sloven, ‘my son John went to bed with his breeches on,’ a competent fireman makes Blanket Bay in seemly night-attire like other less-hurried Christians.
1911		Calumet News (MI) 1 Nov. 3/7: 🎵 All Aboard for Blanket Bay, / Won’t come back till break of day.
1914		Methodist (NSW) 17 Jan. 3/3: Young men, who are fond of an extra hour in Blanket Bay after a Saturday’s strenuous sport .
1923		Advertiser (Adelaide) 3 Sept. 7/3: The cold, dark hours of the early morning, while ‘Tip’ and the rest of us are snugly anchored in Blanket Bay.
1939		Methodist (NSW) 4 Nov. 12/1: We closed down after ten o’clock, and I Was glad to drop anchor for the night in blanket bay.