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Les sous-mariniers : sournois, injuste, et et sacrément peu anglais ?
Joli rouge” : c’est ainsi que les Français désignaient le drapeau que les pirates brandissaient lorsqu’ils ne voulaient pas faire de prisonniers. Le drapeau rouge uni a été remanié à plusieurs reprises au cours du XVIIIe siècle, jusqu’à ce qu’il devienne le standard que nous connaissons aujourd’hui sous le nom anglicisé de “Jolly Roger”.
Submariners: underhanded, unfair, and damned un-English?
Few know the longstanding link between the submarine community and the Jolly Roger. As with most Royal Canadian Navy traditions, this one traces its origin to the British, more precisely, to comments made by the First Sea Lord, Admiral Sir Arthur Wilson. He referred to the advent of submarine warfare as ‘underhanded, unfair, and damned un-English’ and argued that enemy submariners should be hanged as pirates upon capture.
Great things ahead for RCN Sail
“We’ve known for a while the new boats were coming, but now that they’re being rigged in Vancouver, they are no longer just an idea: they’ve become something tangible,” said Lieutenant (Navy) (Lt(N)) Ellery Down, RCN Sail Program Coordinator, during a recent inspection of the two yet-to-be-named Bavaria C45 sailboats at a contractor facility on Granville Island.
