Commander A. Covey-Crump,
Royal Navy (RN), a former Naval Assistant to the Chief of Naval Information, was responsible in the mid-1950s for compiling a record of naval
slang, abbreviations, legends and historical tit-bits. The first edition appeared on 17 May 1955. The compilation, now continually updated, has led to the term
Covey Crump itself entering into RN slang.