SHIP
Bow - Forward Part; Front
Stern - Rear
Port - Left side of ship
Starboard - Right side of ship
Island - Carrier structure on starboard side mid-ship where all controls are located; bridge, flight control, communications, navigation.
Galley - Kitchen
GENERAL
Head - Bathroom
Overhead - Ceiling
Scuttlebutt - Rumor. The cask of drinking water on sailing ships was called a scuttlebutt - a butt was a wooden cask and a scuttle is used to drill holes (in this case, as for taping a cask). Since sailors exchanged gossip when they gathered at the scuttlebutt, scuttlebutt became Navy slang for gossip or rumors.
Belay that - Cancel it
Deck - Floor
Can - Destroyer
Passageway - Corridor
Ladder - Steps (very steep) from one deck to another
Can - Destroyer
Passageway - Corridor
Ladder - Steps (very steep) from one deck to another
PA SYSTEM ANNOUNCEMENT
"Will the duty chicken lay down to the galley and run through the soup."
MEDITERRANEAN PORTS VISITED, SOME A NUMBER OF TIMES
Gilbraltar
Bone, Algeria
Marsaxlokk Bay, Malta
Naples, Italy
Genoa, Italy
Augusta, Sicily
Taranto, Italy
Hyeres, France
Gilbraltar
Bone, Algeria
Marsaxlokk Bay, Malta
Naples, Italy
Genoa, Italy
Augusta, Sicily
Taranto, Italy
Hyeres, France
SIDE TRIPS
French Riviera and Nice, France
Rome, Italy
Isle of Capri, near Naples, Italy
Pompeii and Herculaneum near Naples
French Riviera and Nice, France
Rome, Italy
Isle of Capri, near Naples, Italy
Pompeii and Herculaneum near Naples
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