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Black Tot Day. Quoth Wikipedia: 31 July 1970 was the final day of the rum ration and it was poured as usual at 6 bells in the forenoon watch (11am) after the pipe of "up spirits". Some sailors wore black armbands, tots and rum tubs were "buried at sea" and, in one navy training camp, HMS Collingwood, the Royal Naval Electrical College at Fareham in Hampshire, there was a mock funeral procession complete with black coffin and accompanying drummers and piper. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rum_ration#Black_Tot_Day