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Text Box: HEAD… The ‘head” aboard a Navy ship is the bathroom.  On old sailing ships the wind would normally blow from aft to bow and the place the crew went to relieve themselves was all the way forward on either  side of the bowspirit, the integral part of the hull to which the figurehead was fastened. 

Text Box: FORECASTLE...The appropriate pronunciation for this word is fo’ksul:  The forecastle is the forward part of the main deck.  It derives its name from the days of Viking galleys when wooden castles were built on the forward and after parts of the main deck from which archers and other fighting men could shoot arrows and throw spears, rocks, etc.  (Also known as the Shipfitter’s Patio)  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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