Naval Questions part 48

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Remember, these questions were composed between 1940 and 1945.

Questions

471 For what purpose was HMS Eagle laid down?

472 If your messmate said he was "going round the bouy", what would you think he wanted?

473 What does D.S.B. stand for?

474 What is the meaning of the expression "Going up the straits"?

475 What is a Jacobs Ladder?

476 Blue Pigeon is the name of

a a carrier pigeon,
b a naval aircraft,
c a sounding lead,
d a public house in Plymouth?

477 How do you box the compass?

478 What is meant by something "going by the board"?

479 What was a banyan day?

480 What are Wrens quarters called?

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471 Chilean battleship Almirante Cochrane
475 flexible hanging ladder which can be lowered down the side of a
large ship.
476 c a sounding lead,
477 the action of naming all thirty-two principal points of the compass
in clockwise order.
479 referred to a day of the week when galley kitchens served no meat on
board ship.

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Blimey Pat...you on some medication?

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480. The 'Wrennery', although I'm sure there were other names

 

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Answers

Answers

471 A Chilean battleship.

472 A second helping.

473 Duty Steam Boat.

474 Going to the Mediterranean Station.

475 A rope ladder with wooden steps.

476 Sounding lead.

477 Repeat the thirty-two points, both forward and backward.

478 Going over the ships side.

479 A day on which no meat was issued. (After Banian, an Indian sect who eat no animal food.)

480 Wreneries.

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