Naval/Maritime Quotes - Page 2

Onkel Neal · 03-22-06, 12:01 AM

New quotes from lesrae and TLAM added to future updates.

(Has anyone see Drebbel?)

03-27-06, 01:11 PM

I just read the quote of the day on "To our wives and sweethearts, may they never meet". It is attributted to Patrick O'Brian, and must have been in one of his books; but the first of those books was printed in 1970, and the quote comes from several years earlier-Hogan's Heroes, to be exact.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058812/quotes

On the other hand, there is an older reference, and definitely naval in origin: Ernest Shackleton:
http://www.fastcompany.com/articles/...hackleton.html

Tanyrhiew · 03-27-06, 03:03 PM

Thw wives & sweethearts quote is a traditional RN toast dating from before Trafalgar:

Quote:

At mess dinners it used to be a custom, not often observed now, to propose what was known as the toast of the day. The list that seems to be most commonly followed dates from before Trafalgar, and is:

Monday - our ships at sea

Tuesday - our men

Wednesday - ourselves, because no one else is likely to both

Thursday - a bloody war or a sickly season (to ensure quicker promotion)

Friday - a willing foe and sea room (The two preceding seem to be of historical interest only)

Saturday - wives and sweethearts - may they never meet (reply is made by the youngest officer present)

Sunday - absent friends.

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Tanyrhiew · 03-27-06, 03:10 PM

Another traditional RN piece that O'Brien used was a common ditty amongst midshipmen and went thus:

'Our Captain was very good to us,
He dipped his prick in phosphorous
It shed a light, all through the night
And steered us through the Bosphorous!'

Young people haven't changed that mnuch in the last two hundred odd years.

03-27-06, 03:10 PM	#4
Tanyrhiew Watch Join Date: Sep 2002 Posts: 17 Downloads: 3 Uploads: 0	Our Captain was very good to us... Another traditional RN piece that O'Brien used was a common ditty amongst midshipmen and went thus: 'Our Captain was very good to us, He dipped his prick in phosphorous It shed a light, all through the night And steered us through the Bosphorous!' Young people haven't changed that mnuch in the last two hundred odd years.

03-22-06, 12:01 AM	#1
Onkel Neal Born to Run Silent Join Date: Jan 1997 Location: Cougar Trap, Texas Posts: 21,383 Downloads: 541 Uploads: 224	New quotes from lesrae and TLAM added to future updates. (Has anyone see Drebbel?)

03-27-06, 01:11 PM	#2
Sailor Steve Stowaway Posts: n/a Downloads: Uploads:	I just read the quote of the day on "To our wives and sweethearts, may they never meet". It is attributted to Patrick O'Brian, and must have been in one of his books; but the first of those books was printed in 1970, and the quote comes from several years earlier-Hogan's Heroes, to be exact. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058812/quotes On the other hand, there is an older reference, and definitely naval in origin: Ernest Shackleton: http://www.fastcompany.com/articles/...hackleton.html