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Offline Soot

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Go Navy!
« on: April 10, 2011, 02:50:08 PM »
Some interesting naval history: Click here.
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Re: Go Navy!
« Reply #1 on: April 10, 2011, 03:46:39 PM »
Funny if true, although that is not a official Navy web site.
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Re: Go Navy!
« Reply #2 on: April 10, 2011, 04:27:49 PM »
How many Marines where on the ship ? :o

I met a guy named Jap on Placencia Peninsula in Belize CA ,he was a Rasta Man who sailed on old sailboat named "The Looking Glass" . A very Natty Man (that is a complment he'd love to hear ;))

He got 3 .5 gals of fuel at the dock , because even then it was 5 bucks a gallon .
Then he got 3 twelve packs  :o
I wasn't too happy as it was only a 3 hour ride .

He talked me into helping him drink the beer  ;D and we had a fine time ..... :) 
I should have asked him to change the name to YIKES after seeing his ...rigging.." small ropes where shackles should have been ...  wire ties too ......it was a very Natty boat .
He did have life jackets as they are optional  on other boats :o :o but thats another story ......

When I got home I sent him a bunch hardware grade clips and shackles and stuff . It was a huge improvment !

Drinking on the sea ........ I was shocked ! ;D

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Re: Go Navy!
« Reply #3 on: April 10, 2011, 04:50:57 PM »


ahh yes, A THREE HOUR TOUR ....

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Re: Go Navy!
« Reply #4 on: April 10, 2011, 05:40:40 PM »
Was  Giiligan there?
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« Reply #5 on: April 10, 2011, 06:10:00 PM »
He must have been sick that day . Just me and Japs and alot of beer .

An English guy that sold him The Looking Glass many years ago came back to Belize for a visit and was very happy Japs was still sailing her .  Even though she was well used !

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Re: Go Navy!
« Reply #6 on: April 10, 2011, 08:22:20 PM »
 :P...seems their only problem was to return to home port "dry"!  :'(  As every good sailor knows, water will rust your pipes!...It's good for cooking, bathing, scrubbing the decks, laundry, but not much else! BoomLover
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Re: Go Navy!
« Reply #7 on: April 10, 2011, 08:33:42 PM »
...but not much else!

Certainly has no food value.   ;D
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Re: Go Navy!
« Reply #8 on: April 11, 2011, 10:56:48 AM »
sounds about right for sailors.
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Re: Go Navy!
« Reply #9 on: April 11, 2011, 11:30:39 AM »
Nobody would have had to ask me to re-up under those conditions. I might have had a problem capturing a day of sobriety to remember my name tho. :P
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Re: Go Navy!
« Reply #10 on: April 11, 2011, 12:05:50 PM »
They don't say how much rum they took from those 12 captured ships, so I say 500 gallons each, which is light compared to what they carry themselves. That makes 6000 gallons from them. And that brings the total to 312,000 gallons. They sailed for 208 days. They consumed 1500 gallons per day on board. There were 475 officers and men, meaning they each drank 3.15 gallons per day.

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Re: Go Navy!
« Reply #11 on: April 11, 2011, 01:30:43 PM »
You would have a hard time drinking that much of anything in one day.
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Re: Go Navy!
« Reply #12 on: April 11, 2011, 02:28:13 PM »
Maybe they had leaks in the tanks (barrels?).  Maybe imagination?
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Re: Go Navy!
« Reply #13 on: April 11, 2011, 02:48:07 PM »
Even I can't drink 3 1/2 gallons a day and I consider myself a professional. :o
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Re: Go Navy!
« Reply #14 on: April 11, 2011, 04:51:11 PM »
"The Lucky Bag"
"Time and again, professional and avocational historians, artists, model makers, and others, have sought out information -- or have argued -- about many items of what should be information basic to an understanding of the environment of the sailing navy: How many provisions were carried for a six-month cruise? What did an ammunition loadout consist of? What were the dimensions of a rammer? And on and on and on. There follows here a "lucky bag," a randomly collected compilation, of such information gleaned from more than twenty years of poring over contemporary documentation and recording same in The Captain's Clerk. Much of it is derived from materials relating to USS Constitution. It is a "working document," and by no means complete."

http://www.polkcounty.org/timonier/luckey%20bag/bag.html

USS Constitution sailed on 30 Dec 1813, ordered on a cruise intended to last at least six months. So laden that some of the bread was stowed on the berth deck, her provisions, for a crew of 485, comprised:

Bread                        76,234 lbs
Beef                          51,969 lbs
Pork                          39,840 lbs
Flour                         12,544 lbs
Suet                          None
Cheese                       2,174 lbs
Butter                      1,765.5 lbs
Raisins                           360 lbs                         
Peas/beans            1,286.4 gals                 
Rice                         1,316.9 gals
Molasses                       870 gals
Vinegar                      796.6 gals
Crout[sic]                      800 gals
Spirits                     5,074.1 gals
Water                      47,265 gals

(Court of Inquiry Record on Captain Charles Stewart, May 1814, RG45 (M273, Roll 7), DNA.)

Rations per man per day.
The Captain Speaks - Feeding a Frigate.

http://www.polkcounty.org/timonier/speaks/book12.html


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