"In the Royal Navy, what part of the ship are called 'The Heads'?"?

Question

Had this question in a quiz can can't find the answer anywhere.

Answer 1

The heads are the bogs/toilets/khazi/puggers/john.

The lavatory....

Answer 2

In the days of sailing ships, the crew would have to use poo over the side of the ship. However the British Navy insisted that there be a designated part of the ship that could be used for this purpose.
Because the captains cabin was at the back of the ship they decided that the crew would need to be as far away as possible, they they had to use the bow of the ship.
Most ships of the time had a carved figure head at the front of the ship thus the expression going to the heads was born.
Today the head is still used as a naval name for a toilet.

Answer 3

As an ex Naval Officer I can tell you that the Heads are the Toilets. The reason for the name dates back to the sailing ships, when you had to go to the front of the ship (THE BOW OR THE HEAD OF THE SHIP) where there was a hole to sit over to go to the toilet, near the figure head. This way the sea water would clean you, very much like a B/day as they never had toilet paper. since then it has always been called the heads. Hope this will help you next time, if you ever visit an old sailing ship you will see what I mean.

Answer 4

You hang in there Lassie and don't let these folks snow you.

Royal Navy or not the Nautical terms are similar. The part of the ship called the head is the pointed end that makes 'head way'. And it is correct that the lower ratings that bunked, 'before the mast' would answers nature's call at the head of the vessel. Hence the term is in use for the toilets on modern ships.

Sin Bad's referral to the hole for the purpose would have been the Poop Deck. Not kidding you Lassie, the officers had the privilege of doing it in private on the Poop Deck. At the head ya just hung it over.

And please pay no mind to the schmuck who calls himself a Mustang without knowing what it is. Yee nay said you were Navy and he's just mad at himself. ya don't blame him, do ye?

In the Navy a Mustang is an Officer who came up thru the ranks. This one can't even find the starting line. That's why he vented on you.

Answer 5

The Heads are the toilets. Also in the USA Navy.

The term started when ships did not have toilets. The crew would go to the bow, head of the ship, to void. Hence came the term Head.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

Yes as already stated " The heads" are at the bow of the ship and were normally just a whole in a plank, where anything you deposited went straight into the sea and then dispersed by the movement of the ship in the water. They normally called out heads as well to advise anyone who may have been cleaning out or working near port holes to watch out !

Answer 8

The toilet. Also, the bow on a square rigger (or any sailing vessel that I'm aware of) can never be head on to the wind except for a moment when changing tack. By performing your duties at the bow, the poo smell will not be blown towards the rest of the crew.

Answer 9

the bathrom facilities..in the US Navy also.

In old sailing days, the Captains cabin was AFT (the back end) of sailing ships, so the facilities were in the "Head" of the ship near the prow nets so that waste went overboard where the bow waves would wash it away from the ship. It came to be called the "head"

Answer 10

The toilets, because going back to sailing ships with a figurehead a plank was under it, hence the expression going to the heads

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