A Dictionary of Naval Slang by Gerald O'driscoll
For centuries the sailors of the Royal Navy have been famous for their colourful language and idiosyncratic turn of phrase.GERALD O'DRISCOLL (1886 — 1947) was an Irish sailor, journalist, and humourist who also wrote under the pen-name ‘Geraldus’. A veteran of the Royal Navy, he wrote several best-selling books memorialising the sailor’s world including The Musings of a Merry Matloe (1927) and Awful Disclosures of a Bluejacket (1929). A Dictionary of Naval Slang, his last book, was published at the height of the Second World War.
RICHARD HUMPHREYS is a British writer and memoirist. Born in Wolverhampton, he spent many years in the Royal Navy as a diver and submariner, including multiple patrols on the UK’s Polaris class nuclear submarines in the 1980s. His experiences aboard Britain’s nuclear deterrent formed the basis of his best-selling memoir Under Pressure: Living Life and Avoiding Death on a Nuclear Submarine, published in 2019. He lives in London.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781800750654 |
| ISBN 10 | 180075065X |
| Title | A Dictionary of Naval Slang |
| Author | Gerald O'driscoll |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Swift Press |
| Year published | 2021-11-04 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
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