Often interchanged or confused with the term scuttle, scupper in naval context refers to a deck drain meant to carry water overboard. In more modern times, it came to mean ‘To defeat, ruin, destroy, or put an end to’. The Oxford English Dictionary tells us the term ‘scupper’ originated in the late nineteenth century as military slang, meaning ‘to surprise and exterminate’. Scupper, a term widely used outside the military, can refer to something being thwarted or ruined, i.e., “The weather scuppered Bloggins’ trip to the beach”. Rumour Control refers to a fictitious entity in every ship that seems to be involved in scuppering rumours. The unflattering term white rat might refer to a junior sailor who a senior sailor uses to spread rumours. In a more general military context, rumours can be called buzz. More explicitly, ‘dit’ can be modified to ‘no sh*t dit’, a rumor confirmed as being true, or ‘bad dit’, a rumour confirmed as false. Even today, a galley packet may refer to a juicy rumour, whether created in the galley or not, i.e., “I heard the juiciest galley packet just now on the quarterdeck”.ĭit can refer to rumours, i.e., “Bloggins has all the best dit”. The term galley packet originated from this situation. In the past, the galley was where sailors gathered and talked, as smoking was allowed there. In more modern times, rumours might emanate from anywhere the ship’s company may gather, such as a breezeway, quarterdeck, lounge, or smoking patio. While the term scuttlebutt still finds plenty of uses in a naval context, there is no longer a physical place for it aboard HMC ships. An uncommon term related to a scuttle is the rigol, a raised rim above the outside of a scuttle resembling an eyebrow. On a warship, a scuttle comes with a battle cover – a metal cover (shade) which may be closed when the order ‘darken ship’ is given. As a noun, scuttle refers to a round opening or ‘window’ in the side of a ship, something customarily referred to as a porthole in non-naval circles. In naval vernacular, scuttle refers to a breach, as in the verb scuttle, where a ship’s hull is breached to sink the vessel deliberately. Much like a modern water cooler, rumours and gossip were often shared, and these tidbits of information were referred to as scuttlebutt. As far back as the 17 th century, a scuttled butt was the term for a barrel that had been breached to provide a source of fresh water for the crew. I am honored to be the editor of your newsletter.Scuttlebutt is a commonly used term with a naval origin. I have a deep appreciation for all of the men who served aboard LSTs in World War II, Korea, and Vietnam. As a Millennial, I have the highest respect and admiration for all that your generation accomplished. You survived the Luftwaffe and kamikaze pilots the Wolf Packs and suicide swimmers the Third Reich and the Rising Sun. You dared to disembark on hostile beaches savagely held by Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, Vichy France and Imperial Japan. Your behemoth steel chariots were perhaps the most important beaching ship in achieving Allied victory in World War II. ![]() You helped liberate the oppressed by invading distant enemy shores to deliver troops, casualties, tanks, and critically needed supplies across the vast unknown oceans. The winds of war carried you aboard the LST, the largest ship in the greatest naval amphibious force this world has ever seen. Most of you were just teenage boys when you became sailors who fought tyranny and fascism aboard those "Large Slow Targets"-the first of their kind. One of the things that stand out most about the veterans that I've met and interviewed is that they were all enormously proud to be veterans of this great country during some of its darkest hours. Through my involvement with several WWII associations, I've had the pleasure of meeting countless Navy "Old Salts" from the Greatest Generation. It is because of him that I'm in this position today. My grandfather, who passed away in 2011, was a sailor in the Amphibious Forces aboard a Landing Craft, Infantry (LCI) in World War II. ![]() He has extensive knowledge of World War II history, and recently published a book about the LCIs in WWII.įollow on Twitter: today to start receiving your quarterly issue! He began interviewing WWII veterans and publishing their stories as articles in May 2013. He graduated from Michigan State University with a Bachelors Degree in Supply Chain Management in 2008, and earned a certificate in Screenwriting for Feature Films from UCLA-Extension in 2015. He was also the former Editor of the USS LCI National Association’s newsletter, Elsie Item, from 2014–2016. Zach accepted the position as Editor of the LST Scuttlebutt in November 2014. It is published quarterly by our Editor in Chief, Zach Morris ![]() United States Landing Ship Tank Association LST Scuttlebutt is the official newsletter
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