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Maritime Meanings

Mayonnaise

A sauce made with pepper, salt, oil, vinegar, egg yolk and sometimes other seasonings, beat up together into a thick paste. Not a nautical word, but certainly nautical in origin. When the

Due de Richelieu captured Port Mahon,

Minorja, in 1756, he came ashore and demanded to be fed. There being no prepared meal, he took whatever he could find and beat it up together, hence the original form mahonnaise, which in English became the modern mayonnaise.

John Byng, the English admiral in charg e of relieving the British garrison that the French had put under siege on

Minorca, was court-martialled for fail- ing to do his utmost to recapture the island. He was found guilty and sen- tenced to death, and finally was shot on the quarterdeck of HMS Monarch in 1757. His execution inspired Voltaire's famous remark that in England it was sometimes necessary to shoot an admi- ral pour encourager les autres ("to encourage the others").

Source: An Ocean of Words: A Dictionary of

Nautical Words and Phrases, by Peter D.

Jeans; Birch Lane Press , 1998

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The fast-attack submarine USS Hampton (SSN 767), along with the Royal Navy submarine HMS

Tireless, surfaced through the ice at the North

Pole April 19. The two vessels surfaced through two naturally occurring leads or "gaps" in the ice about one-half mile from each other, following joint operational exercises beneath the polar ice cap. "It's a pretty amazing ship, and I'm happy to be a part of it," said Cmdr. Robert P. Burke,

Hampton's commanding officer. "A lot of prepa- rations and planning are involved in operating a submarine under the ice. After just completing a six-month deployment in December, it took a lot of dedication and training by the entire crew to get us here." Both the Tireless and Hampton crews met on the ice, including scientists travel- ing aboard both submarines to collect data and perform experiments. The two crews had hoped to play an impromptu game of soccer on the ice cap, but the game was called off due to "condi- tions on the pitch" that had several feet of snow on the ice. (By Chief Journalist (SW/AW)

Mark 0. Piggott, Commander,

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