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Rocks and Shoals
Rocks and Shoals n. [with reference to the text of one of the articles, ‘Whosoever causes his ship to run upon rocks and shoals shall suffer the penalty a court martial shall adjudge’] U.S. Navy slang (now historical) (chiefly with the) the Articles for the Government of the United States Navy; (also) a reading of these, as part of Navy disciplinary regulations.The Articles for the Government of the United States Navy were replaced by the Uniform Code of Military Justice, which applies to all branches of the U.S. military, in 1951.
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1912 Our Navy (U.S.) Jan. 34 Some even made bold enough to show up at ‘Rocks and Shoals’ with their mugs chock-a-block with sticky joy.
1918 L. E. Ruggles Navy Explained 120 The crew would be called to attention and ‘uncover’ while the lengthy procedure of reading the ‘rocks and shoals’ took place.
1951 News (Newport, Rhode Island) 16 Feb. 18/2 The code, which applies to all armed forces, replaces..the revered ‘Rocks and Shoals’.
1978 H. Wouk War & Remembrance 335 It violated the first law of the Navy, gravely spelled out in Rocks and Shoals: never to withdraw from possible action; always to seek out a fight.
1997 C. Furey Going Back v. 83 There may even be Navy regulations forbidding such an action. I don't recall the chief ever mentioning it when he read Rocks and Shoals.
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