Originally Posted by
kkbuk
Stokers in white boiler suits? Not in the Royal Navy! White boiler suits were for the unemployed, i.e Engineer Officers and Warrant Officers. Lesser beings such as Stokers wore blue overalls known as 'ovies'!
You are absolutely right of course, since I was generally unemployed and accompanied by the unemployed, I did not encounter many blue overalls on my travels.
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