Does anyone know the name of those rope nets that hang over the sides of ships for troop debarkation?

Hi, there dawa - welcome to the board.

Sorry to be of no immediate help, because I've never had occasion to call them anything (thank goodness! they look uncomfortable and dangerous - I could just about accept them as a means of emergency embarkation but for getting off the ship? no thanks!!)

Suggest you look for the Imperial War Museum's web-site - no idea of the address, but should be fairly easy to turn up. They are bound to know, and I will be surprised if they don't have an enquiry service.

Good luck - don't get your feet wet!

I found a website which talked about cargo nets and climbing nets. I didn't see any military ones. I'm sure tEd will be able to help - he's our military expert, he's probably written a guide to using them somewhere.

http://www.world-playground.com/PacificFibre/

Jo - are you sure about that site? The logo looked as though they manufacture SM equipment!

Welcome, dawa! You must have joined AWAD during
palindrome week.

I haven't been able to find any special name. I think it really is just "the net", or something like that.

Welcome, dawa! You must have joined AWAD during
palindrome week.

You wouldn't by any chance mean "semordnilap week", would you?

It isn't a scambling net is it? Or is that just used in the context of terrifying commando-type courses?

Lucy! Great to see you again!

Yes, Max, you're right--mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa. Though neither awad nor dawa is a word!

Lucy! Great to see you again!

Seconded. But a phrase I seem to have come across once or twice is suspiciously close to You Can Up Look. (I blame the CIA.)

Can You Look Up? (Existential?)

Look Up. You Can! (Exhortative)

Look You. Can up! (New way to politely ask somebody else to zip up his or her mouth?)

You - Lookcan. Up. (The Lord to the vanished Lord?)

Can Look Up You (Oh the perverted horror!)

Up Look You Can (AnnaStrophic)

Ah, so. Old hands can get away with personal remarks. I am young, but I will learn, Yoda (You Oughtn't Do Aerobics)

>Does anyone know the name of those rope nets that hang over the sides of ships for troop debarkation?

Gosh, I can't believe how many posts there are out there!!! I've been reading the emailed posts every day, and every time I try to scrape up time to go on line to reply, there's another danged brush fire that needs some gasoline thrown on.

Anyway, one of my co-workers is a Navy commander who at one time served on an LST (landing ship tank), a vessel from which Marines can debark by throwing over the side a CARGO NET!!! That's the official US Navy name for it.

TEd, who has seen SO many opportunities for puns and so little time to perpetrate them upon unsuspecting readers. For those of you who've been debating the nature of humor, I posted some time back my theory that the pu is the only form of joke which does not have a victim. Which is why we groan at them. There's no one to laugh at

TEd

"my theory that the pu is the only form of joke which does not have a victim"

Is this the church pu you're talking about? I've been victimised on them and I can tell you it's no joke.

No, it's the kooL pU You Can!

Ha ha ha ha hahahahahahahahahah...

Oh dear... can't stop crying with laughter.

Can't top that.

You win!!!

Old hands can get away with personal remarks

Yes indeed, young Skywalker - let the Wookie win!

Yes indeed, young Skywalker - let the Wookie win!

You callin' Jo a hairy scary monster?
Mmmm Halloween!

the church pu you're talking about? I've been victimised on them and I can tell you it's no joke.

Have you no shame??

Is this the church pu you're talking about?

Nope, it's Winnie ille Pu:
http://www.gvo.it/privati/zsuzsa/lenard/winniepu.html
If you do a Web search, you'll find quite a few references to this famous Pu, who, whilst in some ways a victim, is always a winner.


(Get that babelfish out!
http://wordsmith.org/board/showthreaded.pl?Board=miscellany&Number=5052)