Jackspeak of the Royal Canadian Navy

Homeward Bounders

1. A party on the last evening before a ship returns to home port from a lengthy deployment. There is usually plenty of joviality and hi-jinks.
2. The term used by stokers for the extra engine revolutions of speed they surreptitiously apply when on the last leg home of a long deployment.

Added: 2014-11-01 Last modified: 2018-10-02