ship ahoy
Lookout's excited call
Ship ahoy is a nautical hail used to attract the attention of another vessel or announce a ship's sighting: Ship ahoy! Off the starboard bow!
The phrase appears most often in pirate fiction and historical seafaring contexts, carrying a distinctly old-fashioned or theatrical flavor in modern use.
- lookoutWatcher or vista point
- hailIcy precipitation pellets
- crow's nestElevated ship observation platform
- sea chantySailors' coordinated work song
- horizonApparent earth-sky meeting
high seas · signal · vessel · shout · mast · maiden voyage · call · naval tradition · semaphore · sighting · foghorn · captain's log · first mate · hull · portside · spyglass · all hands · radio transmission
- Nautical Idiomsbatten down the hatches, all hands on deck, smooth sailing, three sheets to the wind, in the same boat
- nautical phrasesaye aye, smooth sailing, yo ho ho, all hands, heave ho
- greetingshi, hello, hey, hola, aloha
- sea shantiesDrunken Sailor, shanties, sea shanties, Rio Grande, South Australia
ship ahoymayday
Radio emergency signal
SOS · man overboard · abandon ship · distress signal · all hands on deck
ship ahoyfarewell
Leave-taking expression
bon voyage · cast off · all clear · land ho
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