Green’s Dictionary of Slang

a form of stew eaten at sea.

1830		N. Ames Mariner’s Sketches 125: A beverage which an English sailor on board very appropriately characterized as ‘lob’s dominion, two buckets of water and an old shoe’.
1843		Melville White Jacket I 208: Hence the various sea-rolls, made dishes and Mediterranean pies, well known by man-of-war’s-men- Scouse, Lobscouse, Soft-Tack, Soft-Tommy, Skillagolee, Burgoo, Dough-boys, Lob-Dominion, Dog’s-Body, and lastly, and least known, Dunderfunk; all of which come under the general denomination of Manavalins.
1887		Independent (Footscray, Vic.) 21 May 3/4: Then we have ‘Lob-do-minion,’ ‘Puny-um-jum,’ ‘Cracker Hash,’ ‘Burgoo’ (porridge).