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Continuing on with your Naval education we bring you another installment of MSW’s Navy Word of the Day.

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This is very interesting, that it wasn't until 1908, and that it took that big fan of the Navy Teddy Roosevelt, before the designation was standardized as United States Ship.

Want a totally non politically correct joke concerning this subject? I apologize in advance to anybody of Italian decent. Supposedly I have some Italian blood somewhere a ways back.

The USN uses the letters U.S.S., United States Ship. The British use H.M.S., His, or Her Majesty's Ship, the Germans used to use S.M.S., German for His Majesty's Ship. The Italians use T.M.B., for "Thatsa My Boat."

Ok, hit the delete button now.

Wasn't it AMB for "Atsa My Boat"