MN Leisure Pursuits

[John Gill]

Do any members know the derivation of the term'bagging off'?

[cappy]

didn't think I was deviating when I bagged of

[Red Lead Ted]

I suspect this has something to do with a cat,o nine tails, During the day,s of sail and punishment meated out. Myth has it the whip itself was kept in a red bag below decks as not to show any blood that would appear on the cat,o nine tails after a few lashes Regards John Terry.

[Louis the Amigo]

Hi shipmates, Hi john Gill "Bagging off" is what you do on grain ships to stop the grain from moving you put sacks of grain on top.

[Keith at Tregenna]

Possibly stems from bagsy: British slang term, dates to 1866. Etymologically related to the way small-game hunters claim and store their kill in bags, but no one is quite sure.

Kids still bagsy things today: Wanting to lay claim in a similar way they might say “bagsy that peice of cake etc”.

Apparently the term in the Merchant Navy for going with girls is “bagging off"

EG: My two mates were adamant that bagging off was not a consideration.

During the Second World War the seamen of the Merchant Navy were lauded as tough and heroic – “the shining courage of the men of the Merchant Navy“ was a standard phrase in the editorials of The Seaman, the Journal of the National Union of Seamen. Members of the royal family, the Archbishop of Canterbury, politicians, admirals and ship owners regularly echoed these sentiments. Labour cabinet Minister Ernest Bevin said, “When a seaman torpedoed nine or 10 times comes ashore with his bag on his shoulder and then sails again, this is courage”. The same message, repeated many times by many people was also echoed in the press with unanimity. An editorial in The Times of November 1941 called for a greater recognition for merchant seamen. “In the sustained endurance of our volunteer merchant seamen lies our hope of victory.” The behaviour of thoughtless citizens who wasted bread was contrasted in the Daily Mirror of January 1942 with the courage of merchant seamen who risked and lost their lives bringing home cargoes of grain.

Could be when a seaman torpedoed nine or 10 times comes ashore with his bag on his shoulder ?

K.

[John Pruden]

just go to the pen and wigjp

[Tony Wilding]

dont know if this is meant to be serious or not, am hesitant to describe, ! am fully aware of the meaning, other term was Bagging The Plates, in ER with an old Cotton Waste Sack, to dry any oil and shine them, sprinkle some Diesel or Paraffin first, used to make them shine. Bagging Off was more of a shoreside Occupation.

[Ivan Cloherty]

In the Charleston dance era (1920's) men' trousers were known as bags because they were high and wide, braces (or suspenders as our cousins call them) were also in fashion, bagging off probably getting your bags off for a bit of hanky panky

[John Albert Evans]

just go to the pen and wigjp

Is that what happened when you went downstairs John.

John Albert Evans

[John Pruden]

i don't kiss and tell john??jp