#Rum #RoyalNavy #NauticalToasts AB Barlow drinks a few of the traditional toasts of the British Royal Navy
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@enigmaticchickenmcnobody5 ай бұрын
To wives and to sweethearts - may they never meet!
@valensigmund195716 күн бұрын
Imagine if they met...
@TomFynn20 күн бұрын
Remember that in The Service you always have to choose the lesser of two weevils.
@williamrobinson743518 күн бұрын
"Ain't I witty Stephen? Although I must confess, I didn't think of it until it had already come out.." 🇬🇧😁👍
@valensigmund195716 күн бұрын
Wife or sweethearts ?
@davesherry538427 күн бұрын
This may come as a shock to you but the Royal Navy doesn't need the "British" in front of it. The Royal Navy as the first organsied navy in modern times is simply the Royal Navy. Simialrly, the Royal Air Force as the first seperately organised airforce is simply known as the RAF.
@radioactivezeek415919 күн бұрын
No. There are/have been several "Royal Navies." If he didn't say it, the comments would be full of "what about Norway?" 😂 😅
@gregorybrennan853918 күн бұрын
Well Said @radioactivezeek4159
@GrahamWalters9 күн бұрын
This is true, anything else is American BS.
@jonnyboy21288 күн бұрын
The same goes for postage stamps and coinage.
@markalton28096 күн бұрын
@@radioactivezeek4159 Mayhap that is so, but I venture that there will only ever be one, right and true, Royal Navy.
@efnissienАй бұрын
And by tradition, the Royal Marines never stand for the Loyal toast (as they're RN personnel). There's a lot of arguing about it with the other branches but the best argument I've heard is 'The Navy is the senior branch of the forces, so you adapt to us, not the other way around.'
@JelMain28 күн бұрын
Except the Ordnance.
@montyzumazoom1337Ай бұрын
To quote a toast of my late father in law who served in the Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm in the British Pacific fleet in WW2….. “Here’s to it and to it again, let him who gets to it and doesn’t do it, never gets to it to do it again”
@JelMain28 күн бұрын
The Arm my eight year old brother described as "There's little boy Swordfish, and little girl Swordfish, and Fairey Swordfish!"
@donsland1610Ай бұрын
I was a rum boson back n the late 60's on HMS Condor near Arbroath in Scotland. Tots were served either at lunchtime or at 5pm and much bargaining took place with "sippers' and "sandy bottoms" being traded for favours.
@JelMain28 күн бұрын
Grandpa Tom was Occifers' Mess CPO at Pompey a bit before that time. I have no recall how I know the taste as I only appeared in 55 - probably dippers.
@TomXPorter25 күн бұрын
My Dad always mentioned sippers and gulpers.
@TomGayler2 күн бұрын
My Grandpa, who served in the Queen's Regiment, informed me that the Regiment traditionally sat for the loyal toast as the Regiments that had been amalgamated to form the Queen's Regiment had served as Marines on RN Ships. Are there any other British Army Regiments that also have this as a tradition?
@manlatyconАй бұрын
Thanks and very informative. By the way, there's no need for 'British'; there is only one Royal Navy ditto the Royal Air Force but.......the British army.
@JelMain28 күн бұрын
Ah, but the Royal Monmouthshire Royal Engineers, older than any, and the only unit doubly Royal. The Ordnance was based at Monmouth from the start, c1300.
@petersarandinaki98582 жыл бұрын
This is great!!!
@Peters2centsWorthАй бұрын
Appreciate the effort made in producing these interesting clips - thanks 🙂
@markalton28096 күн бұрын
I raised my glass to every call, and today being a Wednesday, I drank a toast to myself. ~Ah- Harrr~
@romad35720 күн бұрын
Then there is the old 18th Century variation of the Loyal Toast: As they said "The King!" some would circle the glass above some water. They were toasting "the King over the water" or the Stuart claimant to the throne.
@NCMA29Ай бұрын
Very well done indeed - or as the RN would have signalled in WWII, "dog - george" which stood for "manoeuvre well executed", though most would have just said, "damned good!" On a side note, the Canadian Navy decided that the old toasts were far too aggressive for a fighting force, so Thursday is now "Our Navy" and Friday "Our nation." They also changed Saturday to "Our families", though, ironically the rejoinder still works for a sailor - may they never meet.
@JelMain28 күн бұрын
Belgian Great Grandpa's did, four generations later.
@JelMain28 күн бұрын
And at least we now have Pussers.
@davidharris4062Ай бұрын
Up Spirits…….Stand Fast The Holy Ghost?…….posted this before it was mentioned. My Nephew a currently serving Stoker(Marine Engineer)told me when on exercise CSG21, they had an engineer across from the USS The Sullivans, they got him absolutely bladdered(drunk) they sent him back in the morning worse for wear, apparently he had a bollocking (severe dressing down) off his CO
@christhebigone413516 күн бұрын
just watched this thank you, as a foot note the 3rd Battalion the Queens regiment (as was) did not stand for the loyal toast either.
@emmascully985026 күн бұрын
Yours Aye.
@timwoodman11542 ай бұрын
Sandy Bottoms.
@bungfupanda8936Ай бұрын
Gulpers! 🇬🇧⚓️
@DinHamburg2 ай бұрын
nowadays the ships are dry
@tallshipprovidenceАй бұрын
Our Ship is for our crew, but passengers can drink aboard during our sails!
@Culbokie_croftАй бұрын
The RN is not dry.
@mikebennett3812Ай бұрын
Bull Dust!
@davidmurphy228Ай бұрын
Hahaha RN is defo not dry😂😂
@bertmacdonald337Ай бұрын
Red Death has entered the chat !
@kennethmaney91420 күн бұрын
HoHoHo...
@kennethmaney91420 күн бұрын
My you yanks do like to tell a good story. Most of which must be made up.My family where many in the Navy going back to before Napoleonic times ,and no one here has ever heard of the...fluff you espounge... Yankee macaroni.
@declanmurphy6427Ай бұрын
Royal Navy Puffters
@GrahamWalters9 күн бұрын
Say that to a bunch of RN submariners in a bar and you'll be eating hospital food for a year.