Holystone
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holystone-196-13394908
title:
Holystone
text:
Holystone is a soft and brittle sandstone that was formerly used in the Royal Navy and US Navy for scrubbing and whitening the wooden decks of ships. A variety of origins have been proposed for the term, including that such stones were taken from broken monuments of St. Nicholas Church in Great Yarmouth or else the ruined church of St. Helens adjacent to the St Helens Road anchorage of the Isle of Wight where ships would often provision. The US Navy has it that the term may have come from the fa
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description:
Stones used to scrub wooden ships' decks
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holystone
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date modified:
2023-12-10T16:33:28Z
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