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At the end of World War I, the Royal Navy remained by far the world's most powerful navy, larger than the U.S. Navy and French Navy combined, and over twice as large as the Imperial Japanese Navy and Royal Italian Navy combined. Its former primary competitor, the Imperial German Navy, was destroyed at the end of the war. [70] In the inter-war period, the Royal Navy was stripped of much of its power. The Washington and London Naval Treaties imposed the scrapping of some capital ships and limitations on new construction. [71] 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 Devil to pay: the other devil was the long plank running from stem to stern and immediately adjacent to the keel. It had to be kept waterproof by paying it with oakum (hemp fibres sealed in with hot pitch/tar in the most inaccessible area of the hull … so now if you have the Devil to pay you’re in serious trouble) 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)Tuchman, Barbara W. (1994). The guns of August. New York: Ballantine. ISBN 0-345-38623-X. OCLC 30087894. Clean slate: the helmsman’s log slate, on which the course and distance was chalked, was wiped clean at the start of the next period of duty at the wheel, now means fresh start or cancelling a debt. I have family connections to the British Royal Navy and spent several years volunteering for a youth organisation based on a naval ethos. It didn’t take me long to discover that British sailors have a language all of their own, based on centuries of tradition. Clowes, William Laird; Markham, Clements Robert, Sir.; Mahan, Alfred Thayer; Wilson, Herbert Wrigley (1897–1903). The Royal Navy, a history from the earliest times to present. Vol.III. London: Samson Low, Marston, Co. {{ cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list ( link)

Simms, Brendan (2008). Three Victories and a Defeat: The Rise and Fall of the First British Empire. Penguin Books. ISBN 978-0465013326. Cut of his jib: a sailor had to recognise the nationality of another vessel purely by recognising the shape of her jibsail, used to be about the shape of a person’s nose but now is a comment on a person’s style. Morison, Samuel Eliot (1965). The Oxford history of the American people. London: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-500030-7. OCLC 221276825. The sinking of HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse". Archived from the original on 7 February 2012 . Retrieved 26 September 2010. Queen Elizabeth Due To Set Sail From Rosyth today". BBC News. 26 June 2017. Archived from the original on 26 June 2017 . Retrieved 26 June 2017.Queen Elizabeth II: The naval college where the monarch met the duke". BBC. 17 September 2022 . Retrieved 24 September 2022. The Queen held the title of Lord High Admiral, which has now been passed to the King. The Navy served its men set rations three times a day. In good times, the rations would have included fresh fruit, vegetables and meat. During a long sea voyage, fresh food had to be used up before it spoiled, so the men were reduced to eating salt pork and hard biscuit sometimes infested with weevils — but, hey, extra protein, right? Unless you choose the lesser of two weevils. The Commandant General Royal Marines was previously a major-general's post and charged with leading amphibious warfare operations. Since Lieutenant General Robert Magowan was appointed for the second time the post is an additional responsibility for a senior Royal Marine holding other duties. The current CG RM is General Gwyn Jenkins, the Vice-Chief of the Defence Staff. [185] Crane, D. (2005). Scott of the Antarctic: A Life of Courage, and Tragedy in the Extreme South. London: HarperCollins. p.409. ISBN 978-0007150687.

See also: Future of the Royal Navy Personnel [ edit ] Britannia Royal Naval College in Dartmouth, Devon Euchre, pronounced you-ker, is a card game also played on board ships, in naval establishments and also in pubs in Cornwall and Devon. [ citation needed] It is similar to Trumps, and equally competitive. Euchre involves nominated partners, is played only with the nine card and higher, apart from the two of spades– called the "Benny"– (making 25 cards in all) and uses the eight and seven cards as a score board. The winner is the first team to score 15.MacFarlane, Thomas (1891). Within the Empire; An Essay on Imperial Federation. Ottawa: James Hope & Co., Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. p.29. Besides the Imperial fortress of Malta, Gibraltar, Halifax and Bermuda it has to maintain and arm coaling stations and forts at Siena Leone, St. Helena, Simons Bay (at the Cape of Good Hope), Trincomalee, Jamaica and Port Castries (in the island of Santa Lucia). The Royal Navy contributes to standing NATO formations and maintains forces as part of the NATO Response Force. The RN also has a long-standing commitment to supporting the Five Powers Defence Arrangements countries and occasionally deploys to the Far East as a result. [168] This deployment typically consists of a frigate and a survey vessel, operating separately. Operation Atalanta, the European Union's anti- piracy operation in the Indian Ocean, is permanently commanded by a senior Royal Navy or Royal Marines officer at Northwood Headquarters and the navy contributes ships to the operation. [169] Flog a dead horse: the process of paying off a month’s advance wages at sea was known as working off a dead horse, when this month was up a straw effigy of a horse was hoisted aloft then dropped into the sea. To flog a dead horse was to expect, in vain, that the crew would be willing to work any harder during that first month since they’d already been paid for it. History". Volunteer Cadet Corps. Archived from the original on 30 December 2017 . Retrieved 30 December 2017. During my own 25 years in a dark blue uniform, I had several opportunities to confirm that fact," he explains.