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Updated: August 1, 2024
Off Falmouth, the transports, accompanied by three of the American destroyers and two English "limeys " -as the British destroyers are known in the slang of the sea -slipped off silently into the twilight. The American infantry and marines were to be landed "somewhere in France." Jack and Ted viewed the departure with mingled pride and regret.
"Reckon they will be in the trenches before long," ventured Ted. "Frisking bean balls at the Fritzes," snapped Bill Witt with a chuckle as he joined his mates. And now the submarine fleet continued on its way into the North Sea. An American destroyer, two English "limeys" and a French vessel of the same type were to escort the Yankee subs the rest of the way.
Sailors on long sea voyages used to develop a debilitating form of vitamin C deficiency that could kill. Scurvy could be quickly cured by as little as one lime a day. For this reason the British Government legislated the carrying of limes on long voyages and today that is why British sailors are still called limeys.
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