Jackspeak: A guide to British Naval slang & usage

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Australia to buy used UK landing ship". Sydney Morning Herald. 6 April 2011. Archived from the original on 9 October 2016 . Retrieved 9 September 2016. Combined Cadet Force – in schools, specifically the Royal Navy Section and the Royal Marines Section. [214] McLean, Samuel A. (4 May 2017). "The Westminster Model Navy: Defining the Royal Navy, 1660-1749" (PDF). Department of War Studies. Blubber: to cry, originating from whaling days when fat globules looked like tear drops as the whale was flensed.

Knight, Will (5 December 2006). "UK unveils plans for a new submarine fleet". New Scientist (Environment). Archived from the original on 8 December 2008 . Retrieved 10 August 2007. Able Seaman – the term originally was Able Rate meaning someone who was able to “hand, reef, and steer” therefore ‘able’ to carry out all the duties of a seaman.Free and easy: old sailing term for a ship whose sheets (sail control ropes) had been eased off and is now running free before the wind Ripley, Tim. "Admirals thrown to sharks as 'top-heavy' navy tries to cut costs". The Times. ISSN 0140-0460 . Retrieved 11 May 2020. Dummy Run – this term for a practice comes from torpedo training when runs were made with torpedoes fitted with dummy warheads. Morison, Samuel Eliot (1965). The Oxford history of the American people. London: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-500030-7. OCLC 221276825.

May, CMG, Royal Artillery, Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Edward Sinclair (1903). Principles and Problems of Imperial Defence. London and New York: Swan Sonnenschein & Co., Limited, London; E. P. Dutton & Co., New York. p.145. In the North American and West Indian station the naval base is at the Imperial fortress of Bermuda, with a garrison numbering 3068 men, of whom 1011 are Colonials; while at Halifax, Nova Scotia, we have another naval base of the first importance which is to be classed amongst our Imperial fortresses, and has a garrison of 1783 men. {{ cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list ( link) How did Britain come to rule the waves?". History Extra. Archived from the original on 7 March 2019 . Retrieved 6 March 2019.

Baron, Scott; Wise, James E. (2004). Soldiers lost at sea: a chronicle of troopship disasters. Naval Institute Press. p. 100. ISBN 1-59114-966-5 . Retrieved 29 October 2015. The Royal Navy currently uses three major naval bases in the UK, each housing its own flotilla of ships and boats ready for service, along with two naval air stations and a support facility base in Bahrain: Television documentaries about the Royal Navy include: Empire of the Seas: How the Navy Forged the Modern World, a four-part documentary depicting Britain's rise as a naval superpower, up until the First World War; [229] Sailor, about life on the aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal; [230] and Submarine, about the submarine captains' training course, 'The Perisher'. [231] There have also been Channel 5 documentaries such as Royal Navy Submarine Mission, following a nuclear-powered fleet submarine. [232] On completion of the daily toast, it was often customary to conclude with the following tribute. "But the standing toast, that pleased the most was, to the wind that blows the ship that goes, and the lass that loves a sailor" - Charles Dibdin (1740-1814). See also: List of active Royal Navy ships, Naming conventions for destroyers of the Royal Navy, and Type system of the Royal Navy