Show Queen Mary Misses Undraped Ship Art I Walter WInchell Is on vacation during the month of August He lie will have a guest columnist re replace replace replace re- re place him each day The Thc Winchell column will be back as usual September I 1 1 By ny ERROL FLYNN Things You Never Knew Till Now About Ships In Ilithe the first World war var a Brit Brit- ish ship sighted a German Zep and the captain wan wanted led to warn the fleet without tipping the enemy He sent an innocuous message urging his brother o officers officers i- i cers to read a certain hymn The first line was Oh happy band of pilgrims look upward to the skies Napoleon might have conquered England if he hadn't doubted doubled science Robert Fulton offered him a steam-driven steam frigate but Napoleon sneered that the smoke belching cask would never be a fighting craft When Queen Mary first looked over the luxury liner named for her she noticed one painting in the Tea room curtained She inquired and was told it was unfinished Actually it had been hurriedly covered covered because because It was a nude Seven bells are never struck in the British navy It was the time set for a mutiny on a BritIsh British British Brit Brit- ish ship in 1759 1159 but the officers discovered the plot and thwarted it by not striking seven bells It hasn't been struck on a British vessel since A fathom seamans seaman's seamans seaman's sea sea- mans man's measurement of depth means an embrace By an act of parliament its it's defined as the length of a swains swain's arms around the object of his affection The United States State navy still has prohibition and liquors arent aren't permitted on ships Sailors used to be given a dally daily rum ration but congress abolished it and substituted substituted substituted sub sub- coffee The only flag that can be hoisted over the American flag on a United States battleship is the church pennant flown during services Its It's against the navy rules to throw refuse over the side of a battle battle- ship The fixtures of Kaiser ex-Kaiser Wilhelms Wilhelm's Wilhelm's Wilhelms Wilhelms Wilhelm's Wil- Wil helms helm's yacht belong to a Hollywood Hollywood Hollywood Holly Holly- wood film studio The imperial washbasin after the paint had been scraped off oft was found to tobe tobe tobe be of solid silver The United States navy discourages discourages dis dis- dis- dis s sailors getting tattooed Theres There's no such word as shirt in the British navy they're called flannels When the bugler blows reveille on a United States battleship the command given is Show a leg Blueprints for a modern battleship battleship battleship battle battle- ship cost from to At Christmas trees are hoisted hoisted hoist hoist- ed eif to the masts of United States battleships United States subs are named after fish destroyers after deceased navy and marine corps heroes Theres There's a superstition at t sea that if a glass is struck aboard I Ithe the sound must be stopped If its it's permitted to ring out it means means means' a sailor will die An empty bottle is referred to as a dead marine in the British navy Legend Legend Legend Leg Leg- end has it that a marines marine's feet are so big when he dies they I float in the water like Jike an empty II bottle Sailors wear bottom bell-bottom I wear scar trousers trousers trou trou- trousers sers because they can be bc easily roll rolled cd up to scrub decks Sailors have anchors tattooed on their arms for good luck a sign of hope believed to Insure a safe return A tribe of sea gypsies the thc live on thousands of small boats between Borneo and the Philippines and they're on onland onland onland land so seldom that walking on ground makes them seasick Paul Taul Revere made the boilers for the first steamboat Fulton's Clermont and he supplied the brass bolts spikes cogs pumps and nails for the Constitution or orOld orOld orOld Old Ironsides British submarines submarines submarines sub sub- marines are painted to match the theseas theseas theseas seas where they serve Submarines Submarines rines rifles on duty in the Mediterranean nean are royal blue in the Atlantic Atlantic At At- lantic ocean green gray-green and oddly enough in the Red sea black In Iii the Battle of Manila bay Admiral Dewey withdrew the American ships at in the morning so the crews could have their breakfast in peace then re returned returned returned re- re turned to fight The United States had an air raid scare in 1918 German subs raided Maryland Maryland Mary Mary- land Jand and sank ships New Yorks York's lights were blacked out because of a rumor that the subs carried collapsible bombing planes John Paul Jones father of the United States navy was originally originally originally nally just John Paul When he inherited a Virginia estate from his brother he tacked on the Jones explaining A gentleman gentleman gentleman gentle gentle- man must have at least three names Copyright 1940 Daily Mirror |