How We Sank Brit Ships With Buoys ☠️

I'll bet you didn't know this! Red and Green buoys did more than guide ships. They helped sink British ships, and this is how!

#saiing #travel #ships

[statues]

american cookies are british biscuits, and their biscuits are your scones and their scones are like british rock cakes and rocks sink ships, it all makes sense now.

[evakozma]

Driving on the “other side” comes from horse riding times as most people held weapons in right hand, then horse drawn mail coaches going in opposite directions changed their package faster with the right hand side approach.

[johnfrancis]

That's the way the British laughed when they burnt the Whitehorse down lol 😂

[tamjacobite]

That’s hilarious. I am a Brit and when I sailed in the USA for the first time, it did bloody confuse me!

[randomconsumer]

That is actually how they laughed. They held their hands to the chest and threw their heads back in laughter. Just look at any old painting of people laughing from back then. They laugh EXACTLY like that.😂😂

[jefferyshall]

Red on right return!
Same with the lights on boats and airplanes. They have a red light on one side and green on the other. When looking at either if you see the red light on the right it’s coming toward you (“returning”).

[Lukemasonmedia]

Lol we made permanent decisions about our country just to spite England

[richardwright]

In the days of horse travel they use to ride on left side of roads so swords could be used as most was right handed and it stayed on the left side when cars came about

[mikedeitz]

We drive on the right becsue back in the day those on horses or in wagons atc wanted to have their right hand free incase of trouble passing another who might try something on the road ... So it was a defensive posture.

[jeffburger]

DAM we should try this on the Rio Grand here in Texas

[lynnehamilton]

So what's the story behind the way you pronounce buoy? And how do you pronounce buoyancy?

[blairmiller]

B. P. O. E.
Black (green), Port (left), Odd (bouy numbers), Entering (the Harbor or Port)
Also the "Benevolent, Protective Order of Elks"!

[Alans-channel]

I heard different storys that make much more sense why this is that case. But sounds entertaining.

[aaronlancaster]

Red Right Return. Live it know it live it

[Kiwi_T-Bone]

Here in nz it's colour to colour when coming in to Port. So red on left, green on right...

[lazaruslazuli]

Our horses, dogs, and race cars also go around the track opposite the British way.

[arthurneddysmith]

But you adopted the Imperial system and kept their weight, length, volume, etc. measurements. Not exactly a clean start.

[paulanderson]

I was stationed on a USCG Buoy Tender. Love this

[TheKira]

Nice MYTH but entirely untrue as buoyage system were introduced until the 1840, and not colored.
And the UK did not adopt green to starboard inbound until the 1970's when the IALA set up its international standard.

Prior to that it was black to starboard, mostly, with red to port, but that only really came in after WW2 - before then local harbour authrities did as they pleased.

As recently as the 1930's the buoyage in Harwich harbour, most definitely in England (the Mayflower's home port was Harwich) was "red to starboard inbound" just like the US system.

[jamesflake]

So in England it's red right retreat?