Royal Navy
TRADITIONAL TOASTS
Royal Navy — TRADITIONAL TOASTS — United Kingdom
| DAY | TOAST |
|---|---|
| Sunday | "Absent friends and those at sea" |
| Monday | "Our ships at sea" |
| Tuesday | "Our men" ("Our sailors" since 2013) |
| Wednesday | "Ourselves" (usually with the informal reply "for nobody else will concern themselves with our well-being!") |
| Thursday | "A bloody war or a sickly season" |
| Friday | "A willing foe and sea-room" |
| Saturday | "Our wives and sweethearts" (usually with the reply "May they never meet!") ("Our families" since 2013) |
| Loyal Toast | "His Majesty, the King" (or "the Queen") |
"The toasts are typically given by the youngest officer present at the mess dinner. By tradition, these toasts are proposed immediately after the Loyal Toast, on the relevant day of the week. The Navy makes the Loyal Toast seated. This was a special dispensation granted by William IV, who had narrowly missed cracking his head several times on low deck heads when serving in the Royal Navy..."
WIKI
The Loyal Toast
Toasting aboard HMS Elephant the night before the Battle of Copenhagen (1801)
A Note...
The Traditional Toasts are referred to in the "Ship of Wars" series.
