Royal Navy: Sailor Slang Revealed

Starts Monday 8th June

9:31PM, Jul 14, 2009

Ever get confused with Starboard, Port, and all the lingo that comes from the mouths of seafarers?

Well that’s just the beginning of it! Try: Acting Rabbit (baked meat pie) or Depth Charges (sailors' slang name for stewed figs).

Many terms now in use in the English language around the world owe their beginnings to slang originated by sailors of the Royal Navy.

Find out what a sailor means if they ask you for some ‘nutty' by visiting the fascinating Navy Slang Dictionary on the Royal Navy website.

Somalia: Ross Aboard HMS Northumberland

Starts Monday 8th June

3:18PM, May 27, 2009

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Ross with Commander Martin Simpson

Ross spends time with the British Navy off the coast of Somalia and learns about the EU launched Operation ATALANTA.

Onboard HMS Northumberland as it patrols the Gulf of Aden – the first time since 1816 that a Royal Navy ship has been sent on an anti-piracy mission.

The total number of pirate attacks in the Gulf of Aden and off east-coast Somalia so far in 2009 has already overtaken the figure for all of 2008, according to statistics collated by the International Maritime Bureau’s Piracy Reporting Centre (PRC). In 2008, there were 111 incidents including 42 vessels hijacked. So far in 2009, there have been 29 successful hijackings from 114 attempted attacks.