Shirley, you mean 'crewed'?
Deffo "crews" not "men" any more. I posted the following in a JB thread last year about the RN becoming PC .....
And Life can imitate Art - or jokes!
The (British) Royal Navy had traditional "Daily Toasts" as follows:
Sunday "Absent Friends"
Monday "Our Ships at Sea"
Tuesday "Our Men"
Wednesday "Ourselves" (as no one else is likely to be concerned for us!)
Thursday "A Bloody War or a Sickly Season" (and a quick promotion!)
Friday "A Willing Foe and Sea-Room"
Saturday "Wives and Sweethearts" (may they never meet)
with the phrases in brackets being "understood" and sometimes actually stated.
In June last year [2013] the Tuesday and Saturday toasts were officially changed by 2SL (Second Sea Lord, the RN's Head of Personnel) to:
"Our Crews" and "Our Families" in recognition of the fact that females now serve at Sea.
