Royal Navy Toasts

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Tall Ship Providence Foundation

2 жыл бұрын

#Rum #RoyalNavy #NauticalToasts
AB Barlow drinks a few of the traditional toasts of the British Royal Navy

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@enigmaticchickenmcnobody 4 ай бұрын

To wives and to sweethearts - may they never meet!

@montyzumazoom1337 27 күн бұрын

To quote a toast of my late father in law who served in the Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm in the British Pacific fleet in WW2….. “Here’s to it and to it again, let him who gets to it and doesn’t do it, never gets to it to do it again”

@JelMain 4 күн бұрын

The Arm my eight year old brother described as "There's little boy Swordfish, and little girl Swordfish, and Fairey Swordfish!"

@efnissien 22 күн бұрын

And by tradition, the Royal Marines never stand for the Loyal toast (as they're RN personnel). There's a lot of arguing about it with the other branches but the best argument I've heard is 'The Navy is the senior branch of the forces, so you adapt to us, not the other way around.'

@JelMain 4 күн бұрын

Except the Ordnance.

@petersarandinaki9858 2 жыл бұрын

This is great!!!

@manlatycon 7 күн бұрын

Thanks and very informative. By the way, there's no need for 'British'; there is only one Royal Navy ditto the Royal Air Force but.......the British army.

@JelMain 4 күн бұрын

Ah, but the Royal Monmouthshire Royal Engineers, older than any, and the only unit doubly Royal. The Ordnance was based at Monmouth from the start, c1300.

@Peters2centsWorth 14 күн бұрын

Appreciate the effort made in producing these interesting clips - thanks 🙂

@davesherry5384 2 күн бұрын

This may come as a shock to you but the Royal Navy doesn't need the "British" in front of it. The Royal Navy as the first organsied navy in modern times is simply the Royal Navy. Simialrly, the Royal Air Force as the first seperately organised airforce is simply known as the RAF.

@donsland1610 21 күн бұрын

I was a rum boson back n the late 60's on HMS Condor near Arbroath in Scotland. Tots were served either at lunchtime or at 5pm and much bargaining took place with "sippers' and "sandy bottoms" being traded for favours.

@JelMain 4 күн бұрын

Grandpa Tom was Occifers' Mess CPO at Pompey a bit before that time. I have no recall how I know the taste as I only appeared in 55 - probably dippers.

@TomXPorter 15 сағат бұрын

My Dad always mentioned sippers and gulpers.

@davidharris4062 7 күн бұрын

Up Spirits…….Stand Fast The Holy Ghost?…….posted this before it was mentioned. My Nephew a currently serving Stoker(Marine Engineer)told me when on exercise CSG21, they had an engineer across from the USS The Sullivans, they got him absolutely bladdered(drunk) they sent him back in the morning worse for wear, apparently he had a bollocking (severe dressing down) off his CO

@NCMA29 9 күн бұрын

Very well done indeed - or as the RN would have signalled in WWII, "dog - george" which stood for "manoeuvre well executed", though most would have just said, "damned good!" On a side note, the Canadian Navy decided that the old toasts were far too aggressive for a fighting force, so Thursday is now "Our Navy" and Friday "Our nation." They also changed Saturday to "Our families", though, ironically the rejoinder still works for a sailor - may they never meet.

@JelMain 4 күн бұрын

Belgian Great Grandpa's did, four generations later.