Is there any web resource to look for nautical terms? Technical names for different components of ships? Especially warships.
Things like wheelhouse and pilothouse, different parts of bridge, decks of all sorts… Very confusing for someone like me that had never been a sailor.
Google knows all! I found this one that seems pretty complete, though some terms might be Australian and used nowhere else.
http://www.geocities.com/cjstein_2000/dictionary.html
For instance, I never heard the term “a-[censored]-bill”, and I went to sea for 40 years.
Fred
(Edit) Sheesh! I can’t even say it on here! [}:)]
Try looking under “Glossaries & Dictionaries” at The Mother of All Maritime Links.
much obliged
Will take some time to study the terminologies.
If I may, perhaps there’re some diagrams (WWII and modern warships) to make things easier?
Terminology? Are you assuming that seadogs talk differently? What’s so difficult about telling someone to “Head aft. Go past three portholes, up the ladderwell, through the hatch and making sure you secure it, cross over to starboard near the welldeck, past the head and near the gallery you’ll find the scuttlebutt”? Seems like english to me…
-Jesse
…and I thought it was directly below the timminoggy…
Mind the overhead, Marine! Here’s a list that’s got most of the more technical terms in it.
And if all this is not enough try and get hold of:
“The Oxford companion to ships and the sea” , ISBN: 0 586 08308 1
Julian [oX)]