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COMSUBBBS Posts: 3202 Location: Alexandria, Virginia | Subject: What the hell happened to belt loop halyard clips? Way the hell before before Velcro, magnetic hooks....poopie suits...and heavy metal music (if you can call that stuff music) the United States Navy issued things called dungarees that were held up by web belts that passed through things called belt loops. The belt loop directly over the back pocket was reserved for the placement of a contraption, found in every flag locker on everything that floated and had scews and a rudder in the USN. Halyard clips provided a spring loaded thumb operated clip and a brass loop at the other. Every "salty" sailor (translated... Dolphin aspiring clueless rookie.) placed every key, John Wayne P-38 can opener, electricians knife....and bent dogtag on a split ring and attached it to his pilferred halyard clip. A halyard clip suspended from your belt loop imparted an aura of saltiness. It was the twentieth century equivalent of hanging around the Admiral Ben Bow Inn singing "Yo-Ho-Ho and a bottle of rum....Fifteen men on a dead man's chest." Strictly deep water stuff. Of course any non-rated man who had the IQ of a New Jersey sea slug, recognized the danger involved in clearing the bridge with a giant load of stuff that would hang up on any projection on the way from the shears to the Conning Tower hatch....leaving Mr. Salty to gargle small fish and suck salt water until the boat could surface....such keys, in the amount required to provide visual testimonial to the wearers deep water sailordom, could also attract lightning and play hell with the earth's magnetic field. I always wondered how a lad in the USN on an initial enlistment, accumulated close to fifty keys. Nobody knew what half of those keys went to, including the dumb bastard wearing them...They were, in the eyes of practicing nuns "Vain....cosmetic adornment." I've seen E-3 Orion postal clerks wearing fifty pounds of assorted useless keys....enough that if he fell off a cliff on Cape Horn would head straight for the ocean's bottom. Halyard keys...the first step on the long road to being accepted as a mature, deep water sailor.....No, they were a stupid affectation and instant recognition checkpoint for kids who were once barn roof aviators....and beach pirates. Anybody remember belt loop halyard clips? DEX | ||
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Master and Commander Posts: 1812 Location: Boydton, Virginia | Subject: RE: What the hell happened to belt loop halyard clips? Remember? remember? Whats to remember? I still use mine! About 10 years ago when I worked as a Wildlife Biologist my slug of keys got caught on something on tractor and I plowed the entire set 8" underground. We had to change all locks where I worked, even though I emphatically assured them that they won't be found until the next archeological search 1000 years from now. Steamboat sends | ||
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Old Salt Posts: 419 Location: Anchorage, Alaska | Subject: RE: What the hell happened to belt loop halyard clips? Keys? Who put keys on 'em? Mine had a TL-29, a 4" crescent hammer, and a dog tag attached. I was one salty sumbitch! At sea they stayed in my bunk bag but in port they were hooked to my seafarer dungarees. | ||
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Crew Posts: 69 Location: Irwin, PA | Subject: RE: What the hell happened to belt loop halyard clips? Yep, I had them in sub school, trying to look salty. The swivel finally wore out and the key ring seperated. I still have the key ring and use the halyard clip to keep my tool box securely shut. Waste not want not. | ||
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Master and Commander Posts: 1319 Location: Oxnard, CA | Subject: Fifteen Men on a Dead Man's Chest DEX! Since you mentioned it, ... 1. Fifteen men on a dead man's chest Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum Drink and the devil had done for the rest Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum. The mate was fixed by the bosun's pike The bosun brained with a marlinspike And cookey's throat was marked belike It had been gripped by fingers ten; And there they lay, all good dead men Like break o'day in a boozing ken Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum. 2. Fifteen men of the whole ship's list Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum! Dead and be damned and the rest gone whist! Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum! The skipper lay with his nob in gore Where the scullion's axe his cheek had shore And the scullion he was stabbed times four And there they lay, and the soggy skies Dripped down in up-staring eyes In murk sunset and foul sunrise Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum. 3. Fifteen men of 'em stiff and stark Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum! Ten of the crew had the murder mark! Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum! Twas a cutlass swipe or an ounce of lead Or a yawing hole in a battered head And the scuppers' glut with a rotting red And there they lay, aye, damn my eyes Looking up at paradise All souls bound just contrawise Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum. 4. Fifteen men of 'em good and true Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum! Ev'ry man jack could ha' sailed with Old Pew, Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum! There was chest on chest of Spanish gold With a ton of plate in the middle hold And the cabins riot of stuff untold, And they lay there that took the plum With sightless glare and their lips struck dumb While we shared all by the rule of thumb, Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum! 5. More was seen through a sternlight screen Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum Chartings undoubt where a woman had been Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum. 'Twas a flimsy shift on a bunker cot With a dirk slit sheer through the bosom spot And the lace stiff dry in a purplish blot Oh was she wench or some shudderin' maid That dared the knife and took the blade By God! she had stuff for a plucky jade Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum. 6. Fifteen men on a dead man's chest Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum Drink and the devil had done for the rest Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum. We wrapped 'em all in a mains'l tight With twice ten turns of a hawser's bight And we heaved 'em over and out of sight, With a Yo-Heave-Ho! and a fare-you-well And a sudden plunge in the sullen swell Ten fathoms deep on the road to hell, Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum! | ||
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Old Salt Posts: 431 | Subject: RE: What the hell happened to belt loop halyard clips? I still use one only they are plastic these days | ||
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Master and Commander Posts: 1319 Location: Oxnard, CA | Subject: RE: What the hell happened to belt loop halyard clips? Any boat store or chandlery has them in various sizes and configurations, in brass, bronze, and chrome plated. | ||
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Great Sage of the Sea Posts: 781 Location: Port Orchard WA | Subject: RE: What the hell happened to belt loop halyard clips? now the rage is carabiners and I have lots and lots of them and was even thinking of making some for us (and prob still will) that have a little bullet (I remember when we all had one of them as well) like pill case for those of us who occassionally carry those very tiny white pills (with or without being part of the zipper club, (I am without)). But it is still the thought behind the item, I have a key to everything I own even my mini magnum (my little Kubota diesel mower, can you say more power, 2 acres of lawn mowed in under an hour) | ||
Bear |
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Great Sage of the Sea Posts: 781 Location: Port Orchard WA | Subject: RE: What the hell happened to belt loop halyard clips? BTW Just back from trinket show in Long Beach and saw both types of these key rings and brought back a dozen or so samples of the Carabiner types They have started to make them in shapes thinking about doing them eith3er in dolphins or boat outline and am working on the quotes for them. | ||
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