"Confederate sinking of the USS Greyhound " Topic

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Nashville	29 Nov 2014 6:16 a.m. PST
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TKindred	29 Nov 2014 7:08 a.m. PST
Nice article. Thanks for posting that link! My one, very minor, complaint has o do with grammar. When speaking of Navy Vessels, it is proper to drop "the" and simply use the vessel's name. Thus, it isn't the USS Greyhound, but simply, USS Greyhound, or Greyhound. V/R
Nashville	29 Nov 2014 7:53 a.m. PST
Interesting article on that topic. link I agree that ships should be functionally humanized or as if referring to a named animal. Surprising the author didn't recognize that.
David Manley	29 Nov 2014 8:05 a.m. PST
Teddy Roosevelt's "Great White Fleet" encountered what some thought were "coal torpedoes" on a few occasions in the form of dynamite apparently concealed in supplies of coal. Although it was more likely to have been "dud" sticks left over form the mining process rather than deliberate attempts to attack the ships.
GROSSMAN	29 Nov 2014 8:20 a.m. PST
I saw on the History Channel (so it must be true) that the Maine explosion was due to the way the coal was stored near an ammo compartment and the heat buildup set off the powder.
B6GOBOS	29 Nov 2014 4:05 p.m. PST
spanamwar.com/mainecoal.html About the USS Maine. Lots of pop history say it was a coal fire, and Rickover's book is the usual source cited. Here is a link that debunks that suggestion

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