why Pompey

[ShipsWoofy]

where does it come from? What is it's exact meaning?

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[pragmatist]

Some theories here - <A target="_blank" HREF=http://www.pompeyweb.co.uk/misc.htm>http://www.pompeyweb.co.uk/misc.htm</A>



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[Cornishman]

Interseting, but that's only about the footy club. Surely the port has been known to sailors as such since time immoral?
And why is Devonport known to matelots as Guzz? Anybody know?

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[Lizzie_B]

Devonport is known as Guzz or Guzzle as GUZZ was its wartime signal letter group for the port's callsign. The term POMPEY most likely comes from the old HMS POMPEE, which was a captured french prize vessel that was moored in Portsmouth Harbour and used as an accomadation and receiving ship before the barracks were built. It probably is just an ironic coincidence that pompey is also an old Yorkshire word for prison or house of correction!

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[T_S]

Can't really answer that one and to think I used to live right opposite the place on the I.O.W and then in Gosport!

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