Win a copy of D’you Hear There! Daily Pipes of the Royal Navy
By Richard Harris
£9.99 | Hardback | 7 May
Osprey
A unique approach to describing life at sea in the Royal Navy.
‘D’you hear there, the following personnel muster at the Regulating Office: Writer Cleary, Radio Operator White and Leading Seaman Palmer. Those personnel muster at the Regulating Office.’
The personnel involved will not be thrilled to hear this pipe. The summons to the Regulating Office is likely to be an early stage of an investigation into a misdemeanour with which the three personnel have been associated, and whose guilt is assumed by most, if not all, members of the ship’s company.
Life onboard the ships and submarines of the Royal Navy is governed by these ‘pipes’, or main broadcast announcements. They tell sailors to wake up or go to bed; that they are going to war; that they are no longer going to Barbados but to the Falkland Islands instead. They are a vital part of daily life onboard.
The pipes in this book are translated by Richard Harris to both make the incomprehensible understandable and also provide a light-hearted insight into life at sea in the Royal Navy.
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