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Bligh
03-11-2016, 07:29
For anyone wishing to add a little salt to their AARs I just came across this gem.

http://www.hmsrichmond.org/dict_a.htm

Rob.

Tordenskjold
03-12-2016, 02:12
Thank you sir. Nice complement to my English vocabulary:thumbsup::salute::pray:
How Do you use "adrift"? My beer is adrift:question: or the enemy ship adrift:question:
Morten

Union Jack
03-12-2016, 04:13
I am adrift, all at sea, no sail or rudder to assist me.

Tordenskjold
03-12-2016, 05:34
Hmmm...thanks Neil:hatsoff:

Naharaht
03-12-2016, 09:30
That was a good 'find', Rob! :thumbsup:

Bligh
03-12-2016, 11:18
I expect that all our AARs will be peppered with obscure sayings from now on making them indecipherable to most readers.
What have I done? Was it avast mistake or a vast mistake?
Rob.

Herkybird
03-12-2016, 14:02
Adrift, Morton, is where a boat is floating out of control.

Kentop
03-12-2016, 16:44
It's only obscure if you've never heard it. Every officer aboard a ship had his or her own terms for things, and you had better learn them quick. Crews aboard ships back in Napoleonic times were French, Dutch, English, African and even American. Haband is the french word for Sheet. Haul Habands meant haul in the sheets. Every ship was different, with different terms depending on the makeup of the officers.

The link Rob posted is one of those nonsense posts trying to make sense out of British sayings from an earlier time.Don't believe a word of it.

David Manley
03-13-2016, 01:49
In what way is it a nonsense post? Many of the terms used on that page and on the others accurately reflect the terminology, official or not, that existed in the RN in the 1700s and beyond.

Of course if you were writing an AAR in French you'd be using different terms

Herkybird
03-13-2016, 03:18
I am glad this is not a site dedicated to trireme warfare! Ολοταχώς (Pr Olotachos) --Full speed! :question:

David Manley
03-13-2016, 07:14
Oars of Glory - could work very well.......

Herkybird
03-13-2016, 10:14
Rams of Glory?

TexaS
03-13-2016, 15:13
Rams of Glory?

About breeding sheep?

Herkybird
03-13-2016, 17:06
Ewe!

Bligh
03-14-2016, 03:18
I thought it was all about loading cannon.:cannon:
Bligh.:wink:

Herkybird
03-14-2016, 03:56
I see a shee--ep off the forward bow :steer: