Editing Royal Navy (section)

==Customs and traditions==
{{Main|Customs and traditions of the Royal Navy}}
[[File:Elizabeth II v pd.jpg|thumb|[[Queen Elizabeth II]] and Admiral Sir Alan West during a [[Fleet review (Commonwealth realms)|Fleet Review]]]]
===Traditions===
The Royal Navy has several formal customs and traditions including the use of ensigns and ships badges. Royal Navy ships have several ensigns used when under way and when in port. Commissioned ships and submarines wear the [[White Ensign]] at the stern whilst alongside during daylight hours and at the main-mast whilst under way. When alongside, the ''Union Jack'' is flown from the [[jackstaff]] at the bow, and can only be flown under way either to signal a court-martial is in progress or to indicate the presence of an admiral of the fleet on-board (including the Lord High Admiral or the monarch).<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.fotw.info/flags/gb-use.html#sea |title=Use of the Union Jack at Sea |publisher=Flags of the World |access-date=14 July 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070609111311/https://www.fotw.info/flags/gb-use.html#sea |archive-date=9 June 2007}}</ref>

The [[Fleet Review, Royal Navy|Fleet Review]] is an irregular tradition of assembling the fleet before the monarch. The first review on record was held in 1400, and the most recent review {{As of|2022|lc=on}} was held on 28 June 2005 to mark the bi-centenary of the Battle of Trafalgar; 167 ships from many different nations attended with the Royal Navy supplying 67.<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article537597.ece |title=French top gun at Fleet Review |work=[[The Times]] |location=London |date=26 June 2005 |access-date=12 July 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110629111416/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article537597.ece |archive-date=29 June 2011 |url-status=dead  }}</ref>

==="Jackspeak"===

There are several less formal traditions including service nicknames and Naval slang, known as ''"Jackspeak"''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.gunplot.net/main/content/jack-speak-sailors-dictionary|title=Sailors' Dictionary|publisher=Gun Plot|access-date=9 May 2020|archive-date=27 January 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200127000829/http://www.gunplot.net/main/content/jack-speak-sailors-dictionary|url-status=dead}}</ref> The nicknames include "The Andrew" (of uncertain origin, possibly after a zealous [[Impressment|press ganger]])<ref>{{Cite book| title=Admiralty Manual of Seamanship |year=1964 |publisher=HMSO}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nmm.ac.uk/server/show/conWebDoc.17840 |title=FAQs; Royal Navy's nickname |publisher=National Maritime Museum |access-date=14 July 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070629230746/http://www.nmm.ac.uk/server/show/conWebDoc.17840 |archive-date=29 June 2007}}</ref> and "The Senior Service".<ref name="jackspeak">{{Cite book|last=Jolly |first=Rick |title=Jackspeak |date= 2000 |publisher=Maritime Books |isbn=0-9514305-2-1}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.royal-navy.mod.uk/server/show/nav.3804 |title=Naval Slang |publisher=Royal Navy |access-date=14 July 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070702221448/http://www.royal-navy.mod.uk/server/show/nav.3804 |archive-date=2 July 2007 }}</ref> British sailors are referred to as "Jack" (or "Jenny"), or more widely as "Matelots". Royal Marines are fondly known as "Bootnecks" or often just as "Royals". A compendium of Naval slang was brought together by Commander [[A.T.L. Covey-Crump]] and his name has in itself become the subject of Naval slang; ''Covey-Crump''.<ref name="jackspeak" /> A game traditionally played by the Navy is the four-player board game known as "[[Uckers]]". This is similar to [[Ludo (board game)|Ludo]] and it is regarded as easy to learn, but difficult to play well.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.uckers.co.uk/how2play.htm|title=The Basic Rules of Uckers|access-date=12 September 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090213041503/http://www.uckers.co.uk/how2play.htm|archive-date=13 February 2009|url-status=live}}</ref>