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This term is now used to indicate the falsification of documentation in order to avoid doing the work or make present conditions seem otherwise acceptable.
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The term "gun decking" is also naval slang for fabricating or falsifying something. A possible explanation relates to
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courses and speeds since earlier observations, and the computations performed on the gun deck were suspect.
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In the modern Navy falsifying reports, records and the like is often referred to as 'gundecking.'
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assignments of computing the ship's position three times daily following morning
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The lower gun deck of the Swedish 17th century warship
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HMS Victory

Vasa
Gunroom
deck
ship
cannon
broadsides
unrated vessels
upper deck
forecastle
quarterdeck
midshipmen
celestial navigation
star sights
extrapolate
dead reckoning
Glossary of nautical terms (A-L)
Son of a gun




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