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Air Force Personel Roles (13) Air Force Terms (53) Air Force Unit Type (1) American Aircraft Types (22) Army Personel Roles (28)
Army Terms (36) Army Transport (7) Army Unit Type (10) Artillery (27) British Aircraft Types (35)
Canadian Aircraft Types (1) Common Military Terms (23) Decorations (22) Dutch Aircraft Types (1) German Aircraft Types (12)
Home Front (5) Italian Aircraft Types (4) Missiles and Rockets (4) Naval Vessels (66) Navy Personel Roles (22)
Navy Ship Terms (38) Navy Terms (19) Navy Warfare (53) Norwegian Aircraft Types (3) Polish Aircraft Types (3)
Political/Organisational (21) Slang Terms (12) Small Arms (18) Tanks (13)
Glossary Items for Type : Navy Terms
Name Navy Terms
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Glossary Items contained within this Type
Name Description #books
Afterglow An afterglow is a broad high arch of whitish or rosy light appearing in the sky during the evening or morning twilight.1
Boom An obstacle strung across a navigable stretch of water to control or block navigation that can be military in nature; a modern example is the anti-submarine net.3
Buoy TBD.4
Dan Buoy TBD.1
Fathom A unit of length in the imperial and the U.S. customary systems equal to 6 feet and used especially for measuring the depth of water.4
Fog Buoy TBD.1
His Majesty’s Canadian Ship The designation applied as a prefix to surface ships in the Royal Canadian Navy.1
His Majesty’s Indian Ship The designation applied as a prefix to surface ships in the Indian Armed Forces under the British Crown before India’s independence.1
His Majesty’s Transport/Troopship/Trawler/Tug TBD.1
Hurricane hawsers A hawser is a large rope for towing, mooring, or securing a ship.3
Knot The knot is a unit of speed equal to one nautical mile per hour, approximately 1.151 mph.9
Life Jacket A piece of equipment designed to assist a conscious or unconscious wearer to keep afloat in water. Can also be referred to as a life preserver, life belt, Mae West or life vest.6
Nore Command TBD.1
Oropesa TBD.1
Press-gang This refers to the act of taking men into a navy by force and with or without notice. The size of the British Royal Navy meant that this was most commonly associated with Britain during the 18th and early 19th centuries.1
S O S The International Morse code distress signal first adopted by the German government in regulations from April 1905, and became the worldwide standard under the second International Radiotelegraphic Convention.5
Swell This describes longer wavelength sea waves which are not generated by the immediate wind but are due to distant weather systems.6
Trim The balancing of the forces in a submarine to keep it in a stable position. It is accomplished by varying, or adjusting, the amount of water in the variable ballast tanks.6
Whistle Buoy A buoy containing a whistle that is operated by air trapped and compressed in an open-bottomed chamber by the rising and falling water level.2