If you know of any other shipboard expressions, feel free to share them in the comments below! I'd be thrilled to create a Part 2 to this video sometime in the future 😊~Mike

@enginerd1985

4 ай бұрын

Along the line of "Show your true colors" is a "False Flag" operation, when a war crime is committed by not showing one's true colors. Often, this was seen as a wanton act of piracy.

@amicaaranearum

4 ай бұрын

batten down the hatches by and large close quarters cut and run even keel figurehead give a wide berth go overboard high and dry keel over knowing/learning/showing the ropes leeway long haul loose cannon press into service squared away taken aback

@Sutho81

4 ай бұрын

Pull Your Finger Out. When a canon had to be fired, a small amount of powder was placed in the end and held in place by a sailors finger. When the order to fire came, they were ordered to pull their finger out.

@hugh5698

4 ай бұрын

My friend Mike! Thank the Patrick White books for this one..... Scuttlebut! Where the sailors got there drinnking water from in the heat of battle. A barrell with fresh water. I'll become a member if you shout me out and use this one. You have my word as a Gentleman.

@alien_marksman

4 ай бұрын

Why some people refer to the toilet as 'The Head' or 'Visit the Head' ... the place where sailor would relieve themselves was typically on the bow of the ship. Where the Figurehead was, hence "Visit the Head"

God, what a day its been. No-one would cut me any slack, or give me any leeway. At times, I was between the devil and the deep blue sea. Still, now everything is squared away, and I've cleared my yardarm, with a square meal inside, I can finally moor up and enjoy your latest offering. Hopefully it's not plumbing the depths too much😊 Thanks, Mike

@TheFirefishe

4 ай бұрын

Yer Now Inside, Warm, But Flibbideegibbit! Your A Mad Punster, So Now, I Cast... 🐸**Poof** ! 🐸

@BigAmp

4 ай бұрын

Next time if the going gets heavy you can heave to for a while, until things ease up. You could possibly splice the main brace whilst waiting.

@garywait3231

4 ай бұрын

Delightful use of some more idioms based on nautical expressions. I hope Mike will do another video based on the ones you've so creatively employed.

@Pocketfarmer1

4 ай бұрын

@@BigAmpsplicing the main brace seems to be more of a reverse engineered thing of nautical words being employed for a less organic euphemism. It was created in more modern times for the yachty crowd.

@vibratingstring

3 ай бұрын

@@Pocketfarmer1 also yardarm sounds lubberly, I say yard.

I know it's "Oceanliner Designs" but let me tell you how glad I am that you're touching onto the Age of Sail as well! I'm a traditional sailor, obviously know all my sheets and stays etc., but English isn't my first language, and so I learned some idioms today 😹

@JavaBum

4 ай бұрын

This is his worst example. He doesn't fuck up facts this badly, when facts are there to be had. Stay with him, because the rest good times.

@snapdragon6601

4 ай бұрын

Didn't that have Oceanliners in the age of said too? (Small ones I mean) Or did they not really exist until the age of steam ships burning coal?

@wingmanjim6

4 ай бұрын

What are you speaking of ? As a long time sailor and amateur student of maritime history, I found no errors in this presentation.@@JavaBum

@ALCO-C855-fan

4 ай бұрын

Hopefully remaining a... MAIN STAY.😎

@majortom4543

4 ай бұрын

This is why hes our Friend Mike Brady

US Navy sailor here! Can confirm we still refer to the end of a rope or anchor chain as the “bitter end”

@SSN515

4 ай бұрын

I always called it the "Untimely Doom". Pizzed off the Chief Boats, but I was a Pit Snipe doing linehandling during refueling.

@tonycook7679

3 ай бұрын

The bitter end is the end of the line that is turned around a winch. You must hang onto the bitter end so that the winch can hold onto the line when you are winching it in.

@rickmorgan8856

3 ай бұрын

line, not rope on a ship

@UguysRnuts

3 ай бұрын

@@tonycook7679 Sorry Tony, but that is incorrect. The end one would wrap around the drum of a winch (known as a gypsy) would be the "running" or "working" end for obvious reasons. You're "running" it around the gypsy.

@UguysRnuts

3 ай бұрын

@@rickmorgan8856 Not quite. Every line has a specific name. The one used to raise the sail is a "Halyard". For pulling it in, the "sheet". For stretching it out, the "outhaul" or "clew" and for pulling it down, the "downhaul" or "tack". There ARE three "ropes" on a ship: the "man rope" for pulling oneself aboard, the "bellrope" attached to the clanger and the "foot ropes" on which sailors stood while furling or loosing canvas.

I like big sterns and I can not lie, you other mateys can't deny!

@MaryClareVideos

4 ай бұрын

I like funnels way too much. 🚢

@InventorZahran

4 ай бұрын

Oh Sally, she's a pretty little craft, Hot shot to the fore and a rounded aft!

@nickmiller76

4 ай бұрын

Are buxom women ever described nowadays as being "Dutch built" I wonder?

@efnissien

3 ай бұрын

Captain Rhum?

As a young man I was a deckhand for many years aboard the Tall-ship.. ..Argus.. a chartere-square-rigger used for education and seamanship purposes ..out of Newport Beach, Ca. How much I loved being underway with sails dropped ..being high up in the rigging… my favorite was the crows-nest on high seas… what a ride…. Hahahahaha..! What memories you brought back. James Crimi

Hey Mike! As someone fairly new to Maritime history in general, I'd really love to see a video on the Scrapping of ships. I understand it's probably kind of a sad topic for those of you who feel special connections with these ships, but I suppose it's sort of part of the circle of life for most ships, and I'd really like to know more. For instance, when a ship is sold for scrap: -Who buys them? -Where are they taken for scrapping? -What does it really entail/how exactly do you scrap something as large as say, a four stacker ocean liner?? (Especially given that many shipyards had to create expanded areas to build ships that big in the first place.) -And maybe a pick me up for the end of the video, what gets done with the materials after a ship is scrapped? Thank you so much, have a lovely rest of your day, Cheers!

@OceanlinerDesigns

4 ай бұрын

I'll look into it! Thanks for the suggestion :)

@lab1042

4 ай бұрын

Quite a few end up in India (Alang Ship Breaking Yard) and Bangladesh (Chittagong Ship Breaking Yard)

@benderbendingrodriguez420

4 ай бұрын

I've always wondered this myself, just never pursued any answers

@MrAronRobinson

4 ай бұрын

I agree with you, a ship going for scrap is a good thing, it’s what supposed to happen at the end of it’s natural life, and much better than the alternative ways of it ending it’s life (sinking, being bombed etc.). To me, a ship going for scrap is like a person dying of natural old age, rather than being in a accident or having a horrible disease. It’s why ‘The Fighting Temeraire’ by Turner is a grand painting, not a sad one.

@CallMeMrChainmail

3 ай бұрын

I've looked into this before and the only thing I found is that ships from WW1 & WW2, pre-A-bomb, have been butchered on the ocean floor to use the steel in MRI machines because the iron isn't contaminated with radioactive fallout that would affect the sensitivity of the machine. Beyond that it seems that ships just sort of get arbitrarily assigned as either target practice for a navy, scuppered to create a "marine environment" (read; we couldn't be bothered to deal with this) or they hang around until a breaker makes a scrap value offer. I never looked into who was doing it though because I was more caught up with the notion that "Surely, surely it can't be cheaper to sink it than do an engine swap and sell it? SOMEONE in the world must want to buy a big boat." If I were a billionaire and could buy a party yacht or convert an old oil tanker into the Independent Citadel of Partystan I know which one I would choose.

Thanks for showing us the ropes!

I sailed a small boat at a yacht club in Cleveland, Ohio, and this video brought back some funny memories! I can't begin to tell you how many times we had greenhorns aboard who had no idea what we were talking about. Tack, jibe, sheets. Etc were totally foreign to them. They looked like deer in the headlights. It was very amusing......but not when trying to win a race!! Fabulous video, Mike!

@vibratingstring

3 ай бұрын

I grew up sailing before I could talk, so when BeeGees came out with Jive Talking, I thought they were saying "Jibe talking."

@eliasthienpont6330

3 ай бұрын

Raise the top sheet and spanker.

@williamwalsh1399

3 ай бұрын

Or like the skipper who took out some newbies. The sail boat got caught by a strong gust so he yelled "dump dump" . They gave him a terrified look and proceeded to jump over the side.

@UguysRnuts

3 ай бұрын

@@williamwalsh1399 I was afraid you were about to say they defecated on deck.

@debbylou5729

2 ай бұрын

Smug and pretentious, those apply

I have no idea why this video isn't as popular as your titanic stuff. This is some of your best work. I know it isn't as scholarly or in depth, but it's well researched and presented.

"Learning the ropes" - as you mentioned, sailing ships were a mass of ropes - and when the crew was "turned-out" of their hammocks to deal with a sudden squall, one that could dismast the ship and leave them stranded at sea, drifting into the doldrums and running out of water ("horse latitudes", from areas of windless sea being carpeted with the floating corpses of horses enroute to markets in America from old-world breeders, but the wind had deserted the ship to where fresh water was running short and the crew would toss the horses overboard so what little water was left, went to them), it was absolutely vital that every crewmember rushes to the correct rope and hauls-on that one (not the one beside it), the correct amount and in the correct direction. So every new sailor, in the process of learning to "hand, reef and steer", had to learn all the ropes on a ship; where they were and what they did. And of course they'd have to "belay" their "skylarking" and pay attention to their lessons, which took about a year - but if they did a good job of it, they might be told to "splice the mainbrace"!

As a linguist who has always loved the ocean, I absolutely loved this video. I must say that I was surprised “an even keel “ was not mentioned!. 10:08

Mike Brady is a dashing rogue

@vibratingstring

3 ай бұрын

Noice!

HERE FOR THIS! My fav has to be 3 sheets to the wind. Love it Mike! lol

@vibratingstring

3 ай бұрын

I say 4 sheets when someone is completely blotto. Or even 5.

Here's another one for you. I'm retired now, but when I was a long distance truck driver and my dispatcher would give me a time critical rush load that absolutely needed to be delivered on time, he'd often tell me to "Put her in the wind!".

@apexxxx10

3 ай бұрын

*”I drive like the wind” Jack Nicholson in “As Good as it Gets”*

I am always amazed about how complicated it was to work the sails. The number of lines used on those large sailing ship boggles the mind. The thought of having climb up to the sails in heavy weather is beyond belief. I am 82, and only recently discovered you channel. I find it very informative, educational and a pleasure to watch.

As a historian and linguist, I have always been fascinated by the origin of words and phrases. As such, I thoroughly enjoyed your delightful presentation -- which I watched to the, by no means "bitter" end, the one expression whose origin was new to me. Thanks for yet another informative and delightful video.

The phrase, "show a leg" is also naval in origin. In the Navy, sailors were rarely allowed ashore. So when they reached port, the ladies of negotiable affection came aboard. When it came time to sail, the cry would be "show a leg" to see if hammocks were occupied by hairy sailors or not hairy ladies! I think someone else has mentioned the brass monkey phrase, caused by the different expansion rates of brass and iron, but, being "taken aback" is another. The UKs flag is commonly known as the "Union Jack" technically, that's only correct when it's flown from the jack stay, which is part of a ships' rigging. I think it's great that our rich maritime heritage is still reflected in the English language. Thanks for sharing a fascinating video!

@vibratingstring

3 ай бұрын

Nice on taken aback! And brass monkey and freezing come to mind but now I have an earworm from some past 20 years ago song about funky monkeys

@peterdurnien9084

3 ай бұрын

I am led to believe that women were once allowed to sail on RN ships and the command show a leg was to allow ladies 5 more minutes in kip.

@PercyPruneMHDOIFandBars

3 ай бұрын

​@@peterdurnien9084Only certain women were allowed to sail on Navy ships. Usually the wife of the carpenter or bosun. Generally, they were only allowed aboard whilst in port, for "morale" purposes. The call "show a leg" came to make sure there were no women still aboard when leaving harbour.

@PercyPruneMHDOIFandBars

3 ай бұрын

​@@vibratingstringThe brass monkeys were the racks used to store cannonballs on deck. They were made of brass, the balls were iron. In very cold weather, the two metals contract at different rates meaning the balls would fall off!

@alganhar1

3 ай бұрын

@@peterdurnien9084 In addition to an above comment, the wives of all the permanent crew of the ship were allowed aboard, not just the Bosun and carpenter. Usually after each voyage the majority of the crew, including the officers were 'paid off', including the Captain, usually to go onto other ships. The permanent crew were the bosun, carpenter, gunner, master, sailmaker, and depending on time period the purser and one or two of the other senior what we would call NCO's these days, specifically they were the Warrant Officers. They were the only members of the crew permanently assigned to the ship in question. If a ship was placed into ordinary (put into reserve) it was the permanent crew who would stay with her to maintain her. It was not unusual for these NCO's to stay with the same ship they were awarded their warrant for for the rest of their careers. In addition a few other women were allowed aboard, though it was rarely done, generally the wives or/and daughters of the senior officers of the crew, generally the Captain and occasionally the 1st officer. Should a ship have to beat to quarters the women were generally employed on the Orlop Deck with the surgeon Partly because it was good for morale, partly because it was one of the safest places on a ship in the event of battle. I mean, its literally one of the reasons the Surgeon was stationed there....

Very good .Didnt know many of these .But a few others are (which i know you will be doing). Loose cannon/copper bottomed/ even keel/square meal/first-second etc rate.

@UguysRnuts

3 ай бұрын

Never heard "copper bottomed" used to describe anything other than the literal, a copper sheathed hull intended to protect the wood from the Toredo worms which attack it like termites.

I’m amazed how chock-a-block with old yarns this post is. But, bye and large, you’ve showed a good leg. 👍

Another one is "taken aback", which has been mentioned a few times in the comments without mention of its origin. It originally referred to getting your ship nearly straight into the wind, such that your sails get filled from the wrong side and are suddenly plastered against the masts, bringing your vessel to a sudden and ignominious halt.

Love this! Clean slate is one that is attributed to so many origins. I learned it from the Latin tabula rasa (literally a clean wax tablet), but the internet also says it's from wiping a white board clean in school. I'd never heard the nautical origin story before!

@UguysRnuts

3 ай бұрын

That should teach you not to trust the internet.

If you watch Star Trek TOS or especially Wrath of khan, the nautical feel and terminology is so obvious you can't miss it. And it's great. The expression 'Rearranging the deckchairs on the Titanic' doesn't need any explanation :D

@tinymetaltrees

4 ай бұрын

He tasks me. He tasks me and I shall have him! I'll chase him round the moons of Nebia, round the Antares maelstrom, round Perdition's Flame before I give him up!

@AedanEriks

4 ай бұрын

well the ships name is Enterprise and i thought that it was a "navy" ship

@thatguyfromcetialphaV

4 ай бұрын

@@tinymetaltrees KHAAAAAANNNNN!!!!!!!

@DKrueger1994

4 ай бұрын

Heard that one from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 "Ramirez! You're polishing brass on the Titanic!"

@UguysRnuts

3 ай бұрын

@@DKrueger1994 My Grandfather was Harland & Wolff's chief metallurgist, responsible for casting all of Titanic's bronze.

I love this kind of video digging into the depth of maritime culture and it’s effect on other parts of life. Wonderful job!!

Another good one is “cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey” comes from the brass stand that they used to stack cannonballs on

@nickmiller76

4 ай бұрын

A popular but bogus folk etymology I'm afraid.

@UguysRnuts

3 ай бұрын

@@nickmiller76 I disagree.

It's difficult to remain aloof, amid the flotsam and jetsam of lubbery life when a new Oceanliner Design episode comes to the fore. I'll just cut and run now...

@UguysRnuts

3 ай бұрын

Flotsam is stuff from a ship floating in the ocean accidentally. Jetsam is stuff deliberately thrown overboard. Cut and run refers to fleeing an attack by cutting one's anchor rode instead of taking the time to haul it in.

How fascinating I hope to see more sailing content, I’ve always been impressed by the skill of those who crewed those beautiful vessels.

Mr. Brady that was great. I love the origin of words and you have excelled today. I can't wait for Part 2

A surprising amount of saying we use come from the military as well. "Balls to the wall" for example; though not a sailing term, originated from early fighters. Their throttles had ball shaped handles, and putting balls to the wall referred to going to full speed, which put the balls toward the front wall of the cockpit.

@allangibson8494

3 ай бұрын

And “the whole nine yards” from the length is of a machine gun ammunition belt.

@UguysRnuts

3 ай бұрын

@@allangibson8494 Again, I disagree. A fully rigged ship had nine yards on which the sails were set. Full speed is sails set on all nine.

@allangibson8494

3 ай бұрын

@@UguysRnuts A fully rigged ship has way more than nine yards. Nine yardarms is the absolute minimum required to make a fully rigged ship a ship.

Hi Mike, I actually love the origins of sayings, and your video has come up with some great examples. Love the diversity of your videos, keep em coming. Always look forward to your next iteration.

I would never have guessed what "3 sheets to the wind" means. You truly are... a lifesaver :)

You never fail to produce interesting and enlightening content, keep up the good work mate!

Refering to flags as colors, is not antiquated. At least the Canadian Military still refer to the group carrying the flags in a parade as a color party. When they call for the color party, they call March on the colors.

@Vingul

4 ай бұрын

When I hear "Canada", "parade" and "color party" I'd think of something different.. though I wouldn't be surprised in the least if the Canadian military does fly the rainbow flag. The Americans do.

@j_taylor

4 ай бұрын

In the US we have "color guards" and in the UK they also have "Trooping the Colours."

@geraldfitzgut

3 ай бұрын

As a Canadian you should know how to spell “colour”. Don’t sound like a Canadian to me, sorry. How do you pronounce “z”? Thought so.

@j_taylor

3 ай бұрын

@@geraldfitzgut Bro literally trying to gatekeep a nationality. 🤣 Don't ever go to Québec.

@UguysRnuts

3 ай бұрын

@@geraldfitzgut You're right, of course, but being unable to spell is the least of Canadian's problemas.

There is a word in Danish that in the Viking Age meant hole, but today has a completely different meaning, but still related to the original meaning of the word. The word is "Røv" (roev) which means hole. The hole that is alluded to is on a Viking ship where you put a stick so that you could lash the lap to the sail. The word "Røv" in everyday Danish means ass and you also say it in conjunction with hole, ass-hole, so you say hole hole.

@vibratingstring

3 ай бұрын

Interesting because we reeve a line....I think this must be some related words across germanic languages.

@UguysRnuts

3 ай бұрын

There's another sailing word for hole in English slang which refers to a slit shaped incision as found in a rope eye or buttonhole. In recent times it has been reduced to "cut". As in a "cu*t splice".

@TurtleMoonTube

2 ай бұрын

​@@vibratingstring Do you mean heave a line?

@TurtleMoonTube

2 ай бұрын

😂

In french we have an expression, it is "bon vent"(good wind), to wish someone a good travel or to f*** off (depends the context)

@major__kong

4 ай бұрын

In English, sometimes we say bon voyage :-)

I think It would be interesting to shine a light on how these where carried over the dry trade routes and how these and those mixed

I am pleased to see the main stay mentioned as well as pictures of the steel ship Balclutha. Also some of the later ships had iron and steel masts. Even they could break in a dismasting, as in the case of the iron ship Wavertree. TM retired but still follows sailing ships.

I love using the term "a loose cannon"!

Mike, What a great episode! I’m a sailor on the Chesapeake Bay (see my KZread channel) and it was amusing to hear the sailing origins of some common words and phrases. But when sailing, even today, we still use many of those same words and phrases. Fair winds and following seas!

I went to the Dolly Shop and everything was Ship Shape and Bristol Fashion including the woman serving who was Round at the Counter and Bluff at the Bow. Shiver me timbers! On a different note, I am sure you have heard of Culvert's rules for avoiding collision at sea; but I can't find any reference out there in web land. I copied mine from Reeds Nautical Almanac (now theres a book and a half)

@Tom-kp2lv

3 ай бұрын

Love "Ship Shape and Bristol Fashion"!

@vibratingstring

3 ай бұрын

And Bristol of course tip of hat to Cap't Nat!

@UguysRnuts

3 ай бұрын

@@vibratingstring The Bristol referred to is the second largest port in England. Nathaniel Herreshoff was from Bristol, Rhode Island and has nothing to do with the expression, "Bristol Fashion".

"Godspeed" "Cold enough to freeze the ball off of a brass monkey" or "Ship-shape and Bristol Fashon" are my favourites, I use them regularly. Have you ever done a video on the movie Masrer and Commander (2003) and the Patrick O'Brien novels? There is a wealth of facinating details in both and many books have been written about them and the Great Age Of Sail. My favourite is Lobscouse And Spotted Dog about cooking abord ship in that era.

Yes, Please a Part Two! Always been fascinated by anything nautical and so Lighthouses are part of it too! Learned so many new ones here. Really enjoy your narration style and everything I’ve learned here so far. Excellent video! Don’t mind me, just got carried away, was all! 😇😆😎

Fun video 🙂 Pretty please, can we have a video on the ocean liners engineered by Isambard Brunel? Surely the SS Great Western and SS Great Britain with their sails and steam, of course along with the story of the mighty SS Great Eastern would make for a marvelous video by our friend from Oceanliner Designs - @MikeBrady 😉 Much love from Toowoomba Queensland.

Wow you upload at some strange times Mike. lol oh well who isn’t down for a cheeky ocean liner designs video at 1am ❤

@vibingwithvinyl

4 ай бұрын

It was uploaded at 4pm where I live, so perfect time really.

@jooei2810

4 ай бұрын

Time zones, how do they work? 🤣

@lakrids-pibe

4 ай бұрын

The video was released around noon Central European Time. Not particularly crazy when you look at it from here.

@xr88yu

4 ай бұрын

0030 here in Australia.

@shibasurfing

4 ай бұрын

It was released in the morning in the US. That and in the evening in the US are the best times to release videos.

Great video, it can be amazing to realize how many terms we use come from the age of sail and seafaring in general. Considering how much of civilization developed along waterways and oceans maybe it shouldn’t be as amazing. Weirdly while not a nautical term the other day I ran across the term tinder box used in a sci-fi book. The use of tinder boxes was replaced with matches by the mid-1800’s yet almost 2 centuries later the term meaning of course something containing easily set alight items is still in use and understood by many.

@UguysRnuts

3 ай бұрын

Tinder is kindling, not matches and not replaced by anything. You can't light a campfire without tinder.

Fascinating, this kind of vocabulary trivia is always so much fun to run across. Some great ones in here.

'Between the Devil & The deep blue sea' (to have two equally bad options) The Devil was actually the centre plank of the deck (so called as it was 'a devil' to lay during shipbuilding), I've hears it said that it's a reference to laying the deck - do you start from the scuppers and work inward, until you reach the centre? - meaning you only have to shape 'the devil' (hence it's name) or do you lay 'the devil' first and work outwards (meaning you've two sets of planks to shape). 'Not enough room to swing a cat', (A Cramped area), Not enough room to swing the 'cat o' nine tails on a hapless crewmate. 'To let the cat out of the bag' - (To reveal a secret) If you saw the bosun taking the cat o' nine tails out of the bag you knew some crewmember was due to be lashed. 'To turn a blind eye', (to ignore something) From Nelson, when ordered not to engage French ships if seen, when told by a crewmember French ships had been sighted, he held his spyglass to his blind eye and said "Ships? I see no ships!" 'Tapping the Admiral', (To sneak a sly drink) Legend has it that following his death at Trafalgar, it was realized Nelson would be a national hero and his remains were to be preserved for a state funeral. So His remains were loaded into a cask of brandy (this caused outrage, as the public believed rum was more appropriate)to preserve them. However, according to the legend, Nelson nearly suffered the fate of many of Darwin's samples at the hands of parched sailors... When the Cask was opened to retrieve Nelson's remains, the cask held substantially less alcohol than it did when he was interred within!. (In reality, the cask was lashed to the mainmast and put under armed guard). 'Groggy', (to be disorientated) On the subject of Rum, Rum and beer were rationed to the Royal Navy into the 1970's, but originally it was added to water to sterilize water that may have been in casks for months. This was know as 'Grog' - if you drank too much you got 'Groggy'. 'Pressganged', (When you've been 'persuaded' to enter into an endeavor) From the notorious pressgangs that roamed the bars of ports 'recruiting' unemployed fishermen or sailors. 'Up to the gunwhales' (Pronounced 'Gunnels' - when you're so busy you're almost overwhelmed.) The Gunwhales are the very top of the guardrail on a ship, if the water is up to that, then you're out of options and even the most efficient pump in the world (A scared sailor with a bucket) ain't going to save you. Not quite in the vein but as the Royal Marines are Royal Navy - 'Go tell the Marines' because Marines were so well travelled, if someone told an unbelievable tale, if it was believed by a Marine then there must be some truth in it. Again with the Marines "Bootnecks" (UK) and "Leathernecks" (US) At one time the Royal Marines had a leather collar on their tunic, and got them the nickname, this was later adopted by the USMC. The Marines were quartered between the officers and men to prevent mutiny and the collar was said to be to prevent them getting their throats cut as they slept. 'Up the creek' (To be in a dire situation) The Creek refers to Haslar lake and Gosportcreek, just outside Portsmouth. Wounded sailors would be taled to the Royal Navy Hospital Haslar on a spit of land guarded on the landward side by Marines. Back in the Napoleonic period, hospital hygiene left a lot to be desired and communicable diseases spread rapidly through the wards. So many saw going to Haslar as a death sentence. 'A square meal' (A decent meal) back to the pressgangs I'm afraid, not all those 'pressganged' were involuntary. Some were hard up cases, and joined to get a guaranteed meal three times a day (Which in Napoleon's Navy was 6000 calories per day). Which were served on a square plate.

@UguysRnuts

3 ай бұрын

I'm sorry but you are wrong about the "devil and the deep blue sea". The devil refers to the seam between OUTERMOST plank in the ship's deck and the hull planking, not the central one, and it means the only thing between the sailor and sea is the thickness of the hull. The innermost, or middle plank was called the "Kingplank", just as the central spoke in the ships wheel was the "Kingspoke".

The opening using every sailing expression in one sentence was very nicely done. Chef's kiss, no notes.

We appreciate your committment to the fashion of the day. A nice professional touch!

The music you choose for these vids is always so exquisite 😁

May your channel have always fair winds and following seas!

Pure genius Mike!

Very fascinating, Mike. I love learning where expressions come from.

Your programs are so interesting as well as fun. Thank you.

I love these! Some I'd heard before, but I was really surprised by "The Bitter End"

In the Royal Yacht Squadron £100 Cup Race around the Isle of Wright in 1851, where the Yacht America from the New York Yacht Club won the race. They had modified it when she got to England. Her jib on the bow sprit was extended. During the race, she was fairly slow compared to her voyage form New York. At one point, she went bow down into a wave. When she came up, her extention had been "carried away", from that point on. America picked up speed and won the race.

@vibratingstring

3 ай бұрын

She had too much lee helm haha

@UguysRnuts

3 ай бұрын

My understanding of America's victory was based on it switching to light cotton sails for the race after crossing the Atlantic using heavy flax, sea-going sails.

Love your videos mike. Keep up the great work. Also cant whait for grand voyage

Can I just say I LOVED the background music, took me back in time. Much love always from Brasil. 🖤🖤

Ship shape and Bristol fashion.

Cheers Mike, I enjoyed this one, and as others have said I like that you broadened out to the time of sail. We thirst for knowledge Mike Brady.

I wrote once before that im not really interested in boats or ships but this channel is superbly informative and a great joy to watch. Just goes to show how a great strongly knowledgeable presenter can make a topic enthralling❤

Excellent subject!

I'm glad you included "three sheets to the wind" - my personal favorite maritime expression! ⛵

Captain Turner a few seconds after hearing an explosion on the Lusitania 0:59

@Walker_TR2

4 ай бұрын

Bro 💀

Great video idea mike

Great Video!! We Love listening to your well spoken information!! Thanks from Walt and Sue in Michigan ❤

"by and large," a good list. Ho ho! Another sailing phrase!

Said before, say again: you have a wonderful voice. Measured, expressive speech too - and that cool Aussie🇦🇺 accent of yours... this Canuck🇨🇦 thinks it superb.

Very interesting! Thanks!

This was a fun episode!

Another informative video - good to see you've "nailed your colours to the mast"!

Very nice. I didn't realize some of these were sailing terms. I also have never heard of some of these. Great video. You definitely do a great job thank you for your regular videos and intriguing content.

Having big thoughts about how interconnected the world is and how language evolves… amazing video

Great video!

I really enjoyed this. Thanks for that Mike.

I'm glad I was waylaid watching this!

🙂 Thank you for enlightening ❤

So cool, thank you. I learnt a lot.

wonderful really enjoyed it with excellent visuals

I just loved this. The origins of expressions is so fascinating and shines a light on the things that were prevalent and important in the minds of our forefathers, just as to Google something makes sense to us in our modern computer age.

Very cool topic.

Wonderful departure from the usual fair.

I love this video!

My favourite: if you tack into the wind poorly, you can be caught with the vessel pointing directly into the wind and the sails catching the wind pushing the ship backwards. When this happens you are said to be ‘taken aback.”

@UguysRnuts

3 ай бұрын

Or more commonly "in irons".

seeing that "the sun is over the yardarm", I'm going to have a drink!

Very entertaining episode.

This is great, more please!

Good. Thanks.

that was amazing, i learned

Thank You so much for this 🖖🏼

Thank you so much. I love word origins.

Nice video Mike, very informative and entertaining. Loved it.

Oh my, ships AND linguistics in one video. What a treat!

Never heard "changing tack," "loggerheads," or "three sheets to the wind" before, but I remember "tack" mentioned a time or two in _Pirates of the Caribbean._ Very interesting all the same. Love this channel's usual maritime content, but I also love language and especially etymology, so this is a special treat!

Very enjoyable and informative video! Now I know where some of those sayings come from. Keep up the great work!

What a great video idea this was, nice one 👍

Really enjoy your Videos, Mike! Keep up the good work. Hold Your Course.

This shows, we can learn something new every day......

Brilliant, thanks 🙂 NZ

Super interesting..and your presentation is very entertaining and delightful!