He had a wooden leg, an eye patch and a hook for a hand. The bartender was curious. "How did you get that wooden leg?" he asked.
The pirate took a swig of ale. "'Twas a terrible sea battle. I stood bravely, directly facing 12 cannons.All they managed to hit was my leg."
The bartender s...
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A young man joined the British Navy in the 1600s
After being shown around the ship and told he'd be at sea for many months, he asked the Captain, "What does a man do to relieve his urges?"
The Captain said, "Well, there's a barrel lashed to the mast and it has a hole in it. You can make use of it Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday...
Over 100 Coronavirus cases have been reported on the British Navy's flagship HMS Queen Elizabeth.
Other ships in the fleet have been told to keep their distance as it's a carrier.
TIL about a new Fantastic Beasts book where Newt sets out on a British navy ship to catalogue magic beasts in the South Pacific
Itβs called Master and Scamander
A German spy infiltrated a British navy ship.
The captain, unknowingly, strikes up a conversation with the chap at dinner:
Captain: "These Germans think they're so smart, but they're no match for the British Navy. Do you actually believe they've sent any spies here?"
Spy: "Uhh, Nein, of course"
Captain: "Nine spies!? Bl...
Why did the US Navy gift the British Navy glass-bottomed boats?
So they could see the old British Navy!
A Candid Evaluation of the British Navy
Once upon a time, in the 1800s, a bureaucrat of the British Empire was assigned the task of interviewing sailors to get a candid evaluation of the level of contentedness of sailors with their captain. As he was opening his folder, he asked the first sailor that he was interviewing, "Where are you fr...
Nobody tells the British Royal Navy what to do... Except the Irish.
This is the transcript of the "actual" radio conversation between the British and the Irish, off the coast of Kerry, October 98. Radio conversation released by the chief of Naval operations, 10-10-98:
IRISH: Please divert your course 15 degrees to the South, to avoid a collision.
BRIT...
The Captain's red shirt
Bored of living in poverty in the late 1700's, Finn decides he wants a slice of the pie in the high stakes world of pirates. He knows pirates dock down in the bay by his village, so once he spots them, he manages to sneak aboard one of the ships. He eventually gets discovered, and rather than throw ...
I started studying history and learned something really impressive.
Did you know that in the 18th and 19th centuries, the British Navy forced American sailors into service?
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