There are many customs and traditions associated with the Royal Navy of the British Empire, many of these traditions have been forwarded to other Commonwealth forces, such as Canada, Australia and New Zealand. These include formal habits including separate jumps associated with vessels, emblems and fleet reviews. There are also some less formal habits and traditions including the Naval slang language commonly referred to as Jack Speak and the traditional games of Uckers and Euchre. Winston Churchill may have never disregarded the Royal Navy's custom as "nothing but rum, sodomy, and eyelashes".
Video Customs and traditions of the Royal Navy
Heraldry
Ensigns
Ships and submarines assigned to the White Ensign at the stern while along during the day and on the main post while walking. When together, Union Jack is flown from jackstaff in the bow, but can only be flown in special circumstances, that is when dressed with a masthead flag (when flown in jackstaff), to indicate a military court is in progress (when flown from the right axle), or to show the presence of the Fleet Admiral, including Lord High Admiral or Monarch (when flown from the highest hoist).
Sending badges
Royal Navy provides badges for every ship, submarine, squadron, and beach formation. Before the age of the steamers, ships are identified by their doll heads. With the removal of the doll's head, the badge and the motto of the ship were made to describe the ships graphically. The official process for creating the badge was initiated by Charles ffoulkes after World War I who was appointed Admiralty Advisor on Heraldry. Immediately after his appointment, the Ship's Badge Committee was formed. It was incorporated in 1983 with the Ship's Name Committee (founded in 1913) to form the Name and Ship Lines Committee. The Naval Crown adorns the top of all badges. The frame is a golden string. Initially, different ship classes have different shapes, but nowadays all ships and submarines have a circular design. Shore establishment has a square offset design.
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Fleet Reviews
Reviews Armada is an irregular tradition to assemble a fleet before the king. For example, in a recent Review on 28 June 2005 to mark the two hundred years of the Trafalgar Battle, 167 RN vessels, and 30 other countries, were present. The fleet review in 2005 shows a clear contrast between the size of the Navy in 2005 compared to the last review in 1977. In total the Royal Navy has 67 vessels on display, with the largest ship present being the French aircraft carrier Charles De Gaulle at over 200 feet longer than HMS Invincible .
Service nickname
The nickname for this service includes Andrew or Andrew Miller (uncertain origin, possibly after an excited press governor) and The Senior Service . It is also referred to as the Gray Funnel Line: vessels that have corporations, or lines, painted their steam funnel in distinctive colors such as red and black Cunard or the eponymous Blue Funnel Line, and Royal Navy's funnel colored gray.
Initially subordinates will take off their headgear to the boss. In a book entitled Art of the New War , printed in 1740, it is stated that;
When the King or Captain General salutes each Officer is to salute him so that he can take off his hat when the person he salutes is almost opposite to him.
Queen Victoria instituted respect in the Navy to replace the reveal when she was sent to officers and certain people to Osborne House to thank them for providing assistance to a depressed German ship, and disliked to see uniformed men without headdress. During the age of sailing, the ship's officers were always worried about rebellion and therefore it became the custom that whenever an officer approached, the rating would prove that he was unarmed. This is done by tapping the forehead and then evolving into a modern naval honor with a hand at 45 degrees, palms facing inward. The reason for the palms is that the hands of sailors are covered with tar sheets and ropes and it is considered inappropriate to show an officer or member of a dirty palm royal family.
Cheers
The Toasts of the Royal Navy is a set of traditional drinking toasts.
In June 2013 Tuesday and Saturday toasts are officially modified under orders from the Second Lord Laut, Vice Admiral David Steel, to reflect the fact that women have been at sea in the Royal Navy for nearly two decades. Officially, Tuesday toast is now our "sailor" and Saturday toast is our "family". However, most personnel prefer traditional toasts and they are still widely used.
While most of these toasts are already quite clear, the "bloody war or sickness season" refers to the wishes and possibilities of being promoted when many people die: during war or illness.
The toasts are usually given by the youngest attendants present at a messy dinner. According to tradition, this toast is proposed immediately after the bread toasted loyal, on the relevant day of the week. The Navy has traditionally made loyal toast sitting, due to the obvious danger of a low deck on a wooden sailing ship.
Affiliate
The vessel will be involved in a number of affiliates. It is often misunderstood that ships are named after places when they are usually associated with local masters such as the Duke of Marlborough. However there were a number of vessels named after the World War II after schools, cadets and charities. At one time every Sea Cadet unit in the UK had an affiliate ship (with the exception of Kettering, affiliated with 800 Navy Squadron Yeovilton, now disbanded, and Yeovil unit which, due to its location in RNAS Yeovilton (HMS < i> Heron ), affiliated with 848 Helicopter Squadron). However, now that the Cadet Sea units exceed the number of Royal Navy ships, this is no longer possible.
RN has developed a rich volume of slang, known as Jack-speak . Currently British sailors usually are Jack (or Jenny ) than the more historical Jack Tar , which is a reference to one of the previous requirements for long hair tar or the hands of the married sailors. The nickname for a British sailor, applied by others, including Matelot (pronounced "matlow", and dating from the mid-19th century (nautical slang): from France, matenot variant also taken from Central Netherlands mattenoot sleeper ', as sailors have to share hammocks in pairs, and Limey, from limes given to British sailors to combat scabies - especially the excess used inside the Royal Navy. known as Bootnecks or often just like Royals .
Uckers and Euchre
Uckers is a two-player board game similar to Ludo traditionally played in the Royal Navy. It's very competitive and the rules differ between ships and stations (and among other services).
Euchre, pronounced you-ker, is a card game also played on board ships, in naval companies and also in pubs in Cornwall and Devon. It's similar to Trump, and is equally competitive. Euchre involves a nominated partner, played with only nine cards and higher, apart from two spades - called "Benny" - (making 25 cards entirely) and using eight and seven cards as a scoreboard. The winner is the first team to score 15.
Songs and parades
There are some songs that are usually associated with the Royal Navy including "Heart of Oak" (the official quick march) and "Rule, Britannia!"
References
External links
- Royal Navy and Customs Life in World War 2
- Employee/Rating Relationship in Royal Navy 1941-1972 by Lt Cdr G Mason RN Rtd
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