Naval Terms Illustrated (1942)

Titles read: “NAVAL TERMS ILLUSTRATED“. Somewhere out at sea. Various shots explain the meaning of several naval terms with the help of British sailors on a ship at sea. A number of sailors rush onto the top deck to illustrate ’All hands on deck’, then they all put their hands on the deck to show what the term doesn’t mean. M/S of the anchor being raised is what ’weighing the anchor’ means. A sailor pretends to really weigh the anchor with weights on deck. C/U of a sailor blowing a Bosun’s Pipe, not to be confused with “the foul-smelling thing smoked by the Bosun“, as we see a bearded sailor smoking a pipe. A sailor lazes in the sun on deck. This is not the ’Lazy Leadsman’; we see the real Lazy Leadsman at work, assisting the leadsman who takes soundings of the depth of water. ’Plotting a course’ does not mean a sailor selecting food from a menu, but working out the ship’s course on a chart. Finally we are told that when a sailor refers to ’astern’ he means ’backwards’, not “a stern of thi