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Kit up
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To outfit or equip (mainly british).
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Kitbag, àíãëèéñêèé
A tubular canvas bag, closed by drawstring, used by seamen to carry personal belongings. also seabag. kitchen’s reversing rudder: in 1916, recognizing that conventional rudders are relatively ineffective at low speed, royal navy admiral jack kitchen designed and patented a combination steering-and-propulsion device to provide slow-speed maneuvering capability for small powerboats. in kitchen’s device, a pair of curved plates shroud the propeller. when they are parallel to the propeller race, they cause almost no interference, allowing rapid forward movement, but when both are turned in the same direction, they deflect the race, causing a lateral thrust that turns the key 170 boat. and when they are moved so that they reduce the space behind the propeller, they gradually decrease forward thrust until, when fully closed, they direct the flow forward, producing an astern thrust. this ingenious device has never achieved significant maritime success, but kitchen’s principle is widely used in the reverse thrust deflectors of modern jet aircraft.
King spoke, àíãëèéñêèé
The spoke or handle on an oldfashioned ship’s wheel that stands vertically when the rudder is exactly amidships. usually carved or wrapped to make it easily identifiable when coming out of a turn. king’s hard bargain: referred to the waste of the sovereign’s money when the shilling given to a recruit only purchased a slothful, incompetent, or unruly seaman. king’s letter man: in 1676, king charles ii wrote to samuel pepys, secretary of the admiralty: whereas out of our royal desire of giving encouragement to the families of better quality ... to breed up their younger sons to the art and practice of navigation.... we have ... been graciously pleased ... to admit the bearing of several young gentlemen to the end aforesaid on board our ships, in the quality of volunteers. pepys accordingly issued regulations covering the official rating of volunteer-per-order more popularly known as king’s letter man (or boy). these lads, who were the earliest form of naval cadet, had to be under sixteen years of age and were paid ?2 per month directly from the royal purse. each received a letter from the monarch virtually guaranteeing a commission by the age of twenty, subject only to having served three years afloat, at least one of them with midshipman rating, and passing the lieutenant’s examination. in 1703, the required practical experience was doubled to six years, but the system still failed to properly teach most of the young men their profession. a notable exception—who was also the last king’s letter boy to be appointed—was george rodney, later to become one of britain’s greatest admirals. in 1732, the program was abandoned and cadets received formal training at a naval academy in portsmouth before going to sea. king’s parade: 18th century term for the quarterdeck.
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