- Target
A submarine.
- Tars
Old wooden-ship naval term for sailors, sometimes still
heard today when used by old salts.
- Tender
A Tender is a mother ship (probably a repair ship) for a
destroyer or submarine (and maybe other smaller craft).
- Thermocline
A temperature division in the water where the temperature
abruptly changes, causing the sonar sound waves to split
and deflect down and up, effectively hiding any suib
luiring right under the thermocline.
- Thief
Unknown in the US Navy.
- Tin Can
A destroyer, destroyer mine-sweeper, destroyer mine-layer,
or destroyer escort. Referred to as "small boys" in radio
transmissions during World War Two. In more current times
a Frigate would also qualify.
- Tin Can Sailor
God's own sailors, the real men of the blue water (deep
ocean) navy, i.e., Destroyer Sailors. Not to be confused
with the wimps and civies that sail in subs and carriers.
- Tompkin
The plug that goes into the end of a gun barrel and lost
frequently when forgotten at GQ.
- Topside
Above the main deck.
- Torpedo
A self-propelled device whose sole purpose in life was to
find a target and end its life (and presumably that of the
target). Sometimes the "device" would become confused as to
what was a proper target and what was a target of
"opportunity."
- Tumblehome
The slight curvature of a ships sides back in towards the
centerline.
- Transducer
The collection of hundreds of bars that generate the sound
waves.
- Trash
Garbage that used to be deposited in trash cans or
receptacles that were emptied over the fantail underway
or taken to the pier if in port.
- Turn To
Go to work.
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