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04-29-2014, 03:10 PM | #1 | |
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April 29, 2014: Sunken Ships
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But it's another reminder of war's carnage... boom, another 750 dead just practicing.
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04-29-2014, 03:25 PM | #2 |
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Impressive technology. Although they knew exactly where the ships were, so it's not like they found a needle in a haystack. And they are only 150 feet deep.
I'm thinking, of course, of the missing jetliner in the Indian Ocean that's around 5 miles deep, or over 150 times deeper than these ships. |
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I seem to remember something about that. Among the dead were one or more 'overlords', men who knew the plans for D-day. So the government had to recover the bodies to insure that they were not captured.
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04-29-2014, 08:02 PM | #4 |
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My Dad told me they had Marines killed in his outfit in peace-time climbing the cargo nets practicing beach landings back in the day.
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05-02-2014, 12:36 PM | #5 |
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There's some more info here which might be of interest:
http://www.exercisetigerslapton.org/ ... and here: http://www.submerged.co.uk/slapton.php To let the thread drift a bit, the wreck of the SS Richard Montgomery lies in shallow water in the Thames Estuary. It was carrying approximately 1,500 tons of explosive when it ran aground on a sandbank and the hull cracked open. Opinion seems to be divided on the likely effects of the cargo exploding, but the authorities are erring on the side of caution. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Richard_Montgomery
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05-02-2014, 01:55 PM | #6 |
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1500 tons? That's a good side to be on.
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05-02-2014, 03:14 PM | #7 |
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Yeah but they were just short tons.
Good find Carruthers, 10 points for Britain.
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Speaking of sunken ships, they've located two in San Francisco harbor.
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Royal Mint takes delivery of 48 tonnes of silver salvaged from site of WWII shipwreck.
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Dad and I both bought one of the coins which arrived about ten days ago, but we haven't yet watched the accompanying Discovery Channel DVD. I had to search around for an article that wasn't a barely disguised sales spiel!
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05-04-2014, 05:40 AM | #10 | |
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I love how the article idiotically states:
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05-04-2014, 09:22 AM | #11 | |
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05-04-2014, 10:18 AM | #12 |
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I think you have a point there, Bruce!
As mentioned, other articles seemed to be no more than 'puff pieces' and the Royal Mint's own offering wasn't anything to write home about either. Unfortunately, local or regional newspapers in the UK are rarely journals of record as our own dear Bucks Herald unfailingly reminds us. However, it's worth buying for the damned good laugh it gives us. Try the Daily Telegraph article. It's behind a paywall, but you should get a few articles free, gratis and for nothing. A friend tells me that clearing cookies, browser cache etc can be helpful should the need arise. Never tried it meself, you understand... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Gairsoppa
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05-04-2014, 10:50 AM | #13 |
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Since you were hiding this from us, so you and Dad could corner the market on the coins, the legitimate news articles get buried in the archives. That said, we've gotten the basic plot of how India was looted of 7 million oz of silver, and the Germans playing Zorro stopped the completion of the crime.
Seriously though, I got a kick out of the reader's comments with that Telegraph article, how the Royal Navy should have recovered this hoard in their spare time. By the way, I've read you can skirt the paywall by using private browsing.
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05-04-2014, 06:04 PM | #15 |
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And all this time I thought it was scurvy, seasickness, and sodomy.
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