Year: 2012 Language: english Author: J.R. de L. Innis Genre: Textbook Publisher: Arthur H. Stockwell Edition: January 1, 2012 ISBN: 978-0722341353 Format: PDF Quality: Photo of pages Pages count: 144 Description: Tab nabs were the biscuits dished out in the mess rooms of ships in the merchant navy. If a helmsman was asked if the ship’s helm was hard a-starboard or hard a-port, he often would reply, “Hard a tab nab, sir.” Master Mariner J. R. de L. Inniss has spent a lifetime sailing the world’s oceans, first as a boy seaman on the aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious in the mid 1950s and then working his way up through the ranks of the merchant navy. He saw the great days of British shipping, and was able to adapt to the great changes that transformed the merchant marine during his long career. There were long hours of very hard work, hardly any sleep and, at times, atrocious feeding; but the seafaring life also lived up to its reputation for excitement and adventure, with a good deal of fun and laughter along the way.
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Hard a Tab Nab
Language: english
Author: J.R. de L. Innis
Genre: Textbook
Publisher: Arthur H. Stockwell
Edition: January 1, 2012
ISBN: 978-0722341353
Format: PDF
Quality: Photo of pages
Pages count: 144
Description: Tab nabs were the biscuits dished out in the mess rooms of ships in the merchant navy.
If a helmsman was asked if the ship’s helm was hard a-starboard or hard a-port, he often would reply, “Hard a tab nab, sir.”
Master Mariner J. R. de L. Inniss has spent a lifetime sailing the world’s oceans, first as a boy seaman on the aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious in the mid 1950s and then working his way up through the ranks of the merchant navy. He saw the great days of British shipping, and was able to adapt to the great changes that transformed the merchant marine during his long career. There were long hours of very hard work, hardly any sleep and, at times, atrocious feeding; but the seafaring life also lived up to its reputation for excitement and adventure, with a good deal of fun and laughter along the way.
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