- Navigator's Balls
The two spherical iron balls located at each side of the compass. Their real
name is Horizontal Stabilizers.
- Needle gun
A pneumatically powered tool used to chip paint, especially a joy to use when
chipping paint off the overhead.
- Nest
Two or more destroyers tied up outbound of one another to a pier or tender.
- Neverdull
What you used to polish the brightwork.
- Ninety-Day Wonder
Officers, ensigns, that went through the 90 day OCS school.
- Non-skid
Paint laced with grit used to provide traction on weather decks and also
great on your knees when you became a shellback.
- Nukey Boat
Nuclear powered "target".
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