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[Don Robert House]

If you all believe that about the USS Constitution I have a bridge in  
Arizona to sell you.

Don
3rd Gen USN


On 1 Feb 2011, at 8:14 PM, Randy and Sherry Guttery wrote:

On 2/1/2011 7:57 PM, Don Robert House wrote:
> You are gonna get all the newbies upset and confused.
> Like sending a new sailor for a hundred yards of shoreline.
>
I'll trade ya' a box of range rings for a ship's head marker...  and  
I'll throw in a can of relative bearing grease for good measure!

Sailors can be irreverent...    Then again - take some history from  
the U.S.S. Constitution...

The U.S.S. Constitution (Old Ironsides), as a combat vessel, carried  
48,600 gallons of fresh water for her crew of 475 officers and men.  
This was sufficient to last six months of sustained operations at sea.  
She carried no evaporators (I.e. Fresh water distillers). However, let  
it be noted that according to her ship's log,

"On July 27, 1798, the U.S.S.Constitution sailed from Boston with a  
full complement of 475 officers and men, 48,600 gallons of fresh  
water, 7,400 cannon shot, 11,600 pounds of black powder and 79,400  
gallons of rum.."

Her mission: "To destroy and harass English shipping."

Making Jamaica on 6 October, she took on 826 pounds of flour and  
68,300 gallons of rum.  Then she headed for the Azores, arriving there  
12 November. She provisioned with 550 pounds of beef and 64,300  
gallons of Portuguese wine..  On 18 November, she set sail for  
England. In the ensuing days she defeated five British men-of-war and  
captured and scuttled 12 English merchant ships, salvaging only the  
rum aboard each.  By 26 January, her powder and shot were exhausted.  
Nevertheless, although unarmed she made a night raid up the Firth of  
Clyde in Scotland. Her landing party captured a whiskey distillery and  
transferred 40,000 gallons of single malt Scotch aboard by dawn. Then  
she headed home.  The U.S.S. Constitution arrived in Boston on 20  
February 1799, with no cannon shot, no food, no powder, no rum, no  
wine, no whiskey, and 38,600 gallons of water..

See - we might be irreverent - but sailors are good at keeping their  
"priorities" straight...

just my .02 - and worth every bit of it!

-- 
randy guttery

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