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Why, oh why can't they bring back the daily tot? :cry:
In sixteen years I've had a grand total of four "proper" tots, done the traditional way with the old pusser rum. Mmmmm, good! :D
Ah, the good old days! :lol:
 
"Jankers" is old military slang for punishment or defaulters, and by "Navy neaters" he's referring to the old tradition of the daily rum ration aboard RN, RAN, and RCN ships.

Right? ;)
 
evening les Jankers = punishment duties tot = rum ration
Navy Neaters = one name of many for the type of thick Jamaican Dark rum a tot used to have water added to make it a bit less syrupy but it could still take the paint off of a battleship Last time I saw some Skim was in Cornwall for £39 a bottle.
Bugger you beat me to it skim wish i could type faster :lol:
 
My grandad was ex-RM and the first thing he ever taught me to do was drink By the age of eight, I was drinking whisky on the stroke of New Year and by 12 I was having straight Seems that if you were on a boat prior to the 70s, alcohol was the number one concern!

Oddly enough, my dad was present at one of the last ever RN rum issues. He was an air cadet at the time, and had gone a naval aviation course. He was on either HMS Albion or HMS Ocean when the ship made it's last issue. Needless to say being a nipper, he didnt get any!
 
The RN did away with the tot in 1970, but we kept it around until '72. It was one Kipper tradition we were reluctant to do away with.

Of course, the daily issue was well before my time but the tot is still sometimes authorized for special occasions.
 
We used to get Lobster on special occasions while deployed.... And if we were at sea for longer than 90 days consecutivly, we were allowed 2 beers... (We ended up with a "Few" more than 2 each... Hehe)

I was part of one of these "Beer Days" off the coast of Somolia.... I have a few pics from that day somewhere..... Ill look and see if i can find em....... I have it all on video tape though... Hilarious....

A bunch of drunk SEALs singing Alive by Pearl Jam, inside a portable Sat Comm Unit latched to the flight deck...... Those were the days...
 
Sounds like a hoot.
Mmmmm, lobster! We once saved some Norwegian fishermen off the Grand Banks, and in gratitude they gave us crates of fresh shrimp and a bunch of lobsters. We ate like kings for days!

You might already know this, but the USN actually had the daily rum ration up until 1914.
 
I cant find the pics.... Dammmit....

Thats a great sea story Skim..... I remember being on the USS Newport News and we rescued a bunch of Haitians in shark infested waters... We didnt get any sort of goodies, but we did get the chance to sink a 45 foot vessel with small arms fire....... (I'd rather have the lobster)

Kinda similar to what u did Skim..... I remember seein a pic u posted.......
 
Yeah, but we were just practicing on an abandoned dhow. That was in the Gulf one time.
And as I said before, I don't get to fire the .50 cal a whole lot. Hence the piss poor marksmanship.
 
Yea - but wait till shore leave :evilbat:

Thank god I didn't do sea duty. Les- I know you're going to call me a polliwog, but at least I could have a beer after work!

STORY: I was on deployment in Hawaii in 98.' The carriers Kittyhawk and Independence came into Pearl at the same time, the last time 2 large carriers were in Pearl was prior to WW2 (I wonder why). Anyway when all those Marines and Sailors were let loose, downtown Waikiki looked like a scene from the movie "1941."
 
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