The Fleet Air Arm Museum, has a new book out called Jackspeak , costing 9.95 pounds,which I found to be a very complete reference to British Naval lingo, although it doesn't have every name that Tawney used in his songs.

I gave a spare copy to Bat Goddess, and she amused Curmudgeon for a couple of hours with quotes from this book. You have to be careful with these folks too. I considered ordering a copy of this fine book from them, but found it cheaper [new] from Amazon.com. I get my copy from the Amazon book seller, and then a week or so later, I got another copy from the museum, along with one of their caps, neither of which I had ordered from them. Several emails to them seem to have fallen on deaf ears, and I can's seem to get them to take my payment for these items. Of course, somewhere there is a highly cheesed customer who ordered and paid for both objects and never received them.

Dave