I think this one, also, is self-explanatory, but I stand to be corrected of course.
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Cartoon strip first published in WARSHIPS International Fleet Review magazine in December 2012. This strip finds our heroes [n.b. I have used ‘heroes’ in the literary sense, not in the courageous sense – don’t you think the word ‘hero’ is[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I think this is self-explanatory. Make a comment below if it’s not, to you.
Fiddler’s Green is seamen speak for any cushy number, especially involving no work and plenty of food, drink and play.
Cartoon strip first published in WARSHIPS International Fleet Review magazine in November 2012. As you will know, the rum ration was stopped in 1971, to much lamenting of all ranks, but rum and modern warfare materiel do not mix. Of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
For those of you who are not yet regular readers of Warships IFR magazine, the Astute Class are today’s beautiful nuclear-powered attack submarines. HMS Astute joined the Royal Navy in 2009 and became operational in 2010. Ambush, Artful and Audaciuos[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Grog was the well-known drink of preference of seamen, comprising watered-down rum (for full details, check out the Naval Stuff page). Eight bells was the end of any of the main watches (not dog-watches, as they were cur-tailed). Visit the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Cartoon strip first published in WARSHIPS International Fleet Review magazine in October 2012. Of course, we all know that the creation of tidal movement on Earth, of both seas and land masses, is much more complicated than just the effects[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
In the navy the expression ‘the quarter deck’, in this context, means the officers, as distinct from the crew, who were ‘before the mast’. This scene is in the hold.
Some of the best ships in the sailing Royal Navy were designed and built in France or Spain and commissioned after capture, when they often kept their original name, but with the value added distinction of an “HMS”. The Old[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…