200009 The very last confusion of Orders

09 Jan 2000 MARS

The very last confusion of Orders
Report No. 200009

Just to add to the confusion about the orders for multiple shaft vessels. In the Royal Naval Diesel submarine force, now no longer, we always referred to propulsion movements as:

Stop together / slow ahead together / half ahead together / full ahead together / slow astern together etc.

This was not replicated in the naval surface fleet who always use slow ahead both engines / half ahead both engines etc.