D'YOU HEAR THERE!: Daily Pipes of the Royal Navy

Explores how despite the introduction of modern-day technology, ships and submarines of the Royal Navy still operate on the basis of main broadcast announcements, known in the Royal Navy as Pipes. Aims to translate the Pipes' meanings, not simply to make the seemingly incomprehensible understandable, but also to conjure up often humorous anecdotes that provide an insight into life at sea in the RN. Each Pipe is provided with a brief description of its meaning followed by longer observation of what it meant to different members of the Ship's Company.