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Working up
| Глоссарий морских терминов (рангоут, такелаж, устройство судна) |
- Training, usually including gunnery practice.
- The keeping men at work on needless matters, beyond the usual hours, for punishment.
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Punishment, английский
- The execution of the sentence against an offender, as awarded by a court-martial, or adjudged by a superior officer.
- Rules of conduct and penalties for flouting them are essential to all forms of society, especially so in ships at sea, which were historically independent of land-based authority, giving ship captains unfettered power over their crews. the earliest extant english-language laws and punishments are the ordinances or usages of the sea promulgated in 1190 by richard lionheart (who himself spoke little or no english) for the english crusader fleet. in part, these stated: he who kills a man on shipboard, shall be bound to
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Heave down, английский
- Turn a ship on its side (for cleaning). also known as careening
- To careen a vessel, pulling it onto its side by hauling on purchases attached to the masts. heave ho!: [1] the cry formerly made by sailors while manually raising an anchor. [2] colloquially, to give someone “the old heave ho” is to dismiss them.
Banyan, английский
- Traditional royal navy term for a day or shorter period of rest and relaxation.
- [1] formerly a meatless day aboard ship. [2] a wide-spreading fig tree whose high branches extend horizontally for 18 to 24 meters (60–80 feet) and then drop tendrils to the ground where they take root, forming a tent-like enclosure. the name originally applied to a specific tree, under which the hindu merchant caste (vin, iyo, pronounced banio) had built a pagoda. in tropical service, parties were often held in its shade; hence banyan party became rn slang for a picnic ashore, later spreading to the usn.
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