was sent to HMS Victory shore establishment for an accountant officers' technical course. On 2 January 1939 he was again deployed to HMS Victory for Tactical School. Second World War On 11 August 1939, Covey-Crump was appointed to the shore establishment HMS Boscawen. In that year, he was assistant to the Chief of Naval Information. He was promoted to commander on 1 June 1943. In 1944, he was serving on the cruiser HMS Ceylon. After the war In 1946, Covey-Crump was serving at HMS St George shore training establishment, finishing in January 1948. In February 1948, he was appointed to HMS St Vincent, a shore training establishment. He was appointed to HMS Liverpool from 15 March 1948 until at least August 1950. On 22 January 1950, while Covey-Crump was serving in the Mediterranean under Vice Admiral Louis Mountbatten on HMS Liverpool, King Farouk visited the ship, and was presented with a special matchbox when lighting his cigar. "From the ship's Father Christmas one of the officers, Commander A. T. L. Covey-Crump, had received the present of six boxes of matches. The specially-printed label bears the legend Commander Covey's Crumptious Matches beneath a horseshoe". Farouk was a collector and belonged to the British Matchbox Labels Society (BMLS); the gift was described as a "great rarity". The president of the BMLS also owned one of the six labels. In 1955, his compilation of Jack-speak was published within the Navy. He was appointed registrar at the Royal Naval Barracks, Devonport the same year. Compilation of naval terms Alphabetical Glossary of Naval Terms and Abbreviations (1955) Covey-Crump privately published, within the Royal Navy, his first-edition typescript of Alphabetical Glossary of Naval Terms and Abbreviations on 17 May 1955. It contains "a collection of Naval slang, abbreviations, legends and historical tit-bits", and a list of Naval nicknames. The National Archives website has an online transcription of it, commenting that it "provides a valuable resource for researchers looking for answers to many historical questions about the Royal Navy". The historical reenactment company HMS Richmond suggests that the collection of Jack-speak in this compilation is centred on the period around 1775. It is "mainly aimed at those with a background in the senior service", and was "the first official collection of naval slang". The compilation itself became known in the Royal Navy as Covey-Crump and the phrase thus entered the list of naval slang. One example from