From: M151 (m151@cox.net)
Date: Mon Jan 09 2006 - 17:39:38 PST
>From a web source called "the straight dope" (no puns intended)
Difference between a ship and a boat
http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a3_256.html
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David Brubaker
MVPA # 18115
KCØNZN
Owner - M151A2
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Quantum materiae materietur marmota monax si marmota monax materiam possit
materiari?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Glen Closson" <glen_closson@earthlink.net>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Monday, January 09, 2006 6:09 PM
Subject: Re: [MV] a pirate's life for me...
> So the dinghy is a boat, unless it carries a small plastic bathtub toy
> boat, then its a ship. But then what is your sloop be called? It would
> carry a ship that carried a boat.
>
> This is too confuzin.
>
> -----Original Message-----
>>From: Dave J <sd0044@gwtc.net>
>>Sent: Jan 9, 2006 3:42 PM
>>To: Military Vehicles Mailing List <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>, Glen Closson
>><glen_closson@earthlink.net>
>>Subject: Re: [MV] a pirate's life for me...
>>
>>Well I guess my 21 foot Aquarius sloop is a "ship" then instead of a
>>"boat"
>>as she carries a dinghy too. Gee the things I learn here are
>>outstanding
>>(grin).
>>
>>Dave J
>>==================================
>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: "Glen Closson" <glen_closson@earthlink.net>
>>To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
>>Sent: Monday, January 09, 2006 4:16 PM
>>Subject: Re: [MV] a pirate's life for me...
>>
>>
>>> So a life raft is a boat and not a ship, correct?
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> >From: MV <MV@dc9.tzo.com>
>>> >Sent: Jan 9, 2006 2:54 PM
>>> >To: Military Vehicles Mailing List <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
>>> >Subject: Re: [MV] a pirate's life for me...
>>> >
>>> >Arthur,
>>> >
>>> >Where do you get these facts from??? Or is that common knowledge in
>>> >your neck of the woods?
>>> >
>>> >Do dingy's count? Rubber rafts? (;->)
>>> >
>>> >Dave - Aka Lefty
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >m35prod@optonline.net wrote:
>>> >> A ship is a vessel large enough to carry another vessel. (Or designed
>>to do so) Therefore, when crusty old Gene Hackman, in "Crimson Tide",
>>says
>>"Anyone who can't handle the stress can leave the SHIP right now..." he is
>>committing what is known in the film trade as a factual error. (See, for
>>example, the website www.IMDB.com, and search your favorite movies for
>>factual errors and continuity errors). Submarines could, physically, carry
>>another vessel, but they don't, so they are boats, not ships. Boat,
>>Patrol
>>Torpedo, or PT Boat, carries no other boat, so it's a boat, not a ship.
>>Same for Boat, Patrol, River; and Craft, Patrol, Fast ("Swift boat").
>>> >>
>>> >> We don't brag when our boat comes in. We brag when our ship comes
>>> >> in.
>>Your ship has come in when you can call your boat a ship.
>>> >>
>>> >> Got it now?
>>> >>
>>> >> APB (Bloom, Arthur Paul)
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >> ----- Original Message -----
>>> >> From: timothy.smith1@att.net
>>> >> Date: Monday, January 9, 2006 2:05 pm
>>> >> Subject: [MV] a pirate's life for me...
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >>>I hereby acknowledge receipt of various emails explaining the
>>> >>>difference between a PBR & a Swift boat. Whatever the name, it's
>>> >>>a really neat looking boat. (Or is it a "ship"? Whatever!)
>>> >>>
>>> >>>Now if some of you salty old sea-dogs can explain to me why the
>>> >>>little round windows on the starboard side are called "port"
>>> >>>holes, I'll be completely satisfied.
>>> >>>
>>> >>>(grins)
>>> >>>TJ
>>> >>>
>>> >>>"There exists no sporting event whose entertainment value cannot
>>> >>>be vastly improved by the introduction of a series of randomly
>>> >>>placed land-mines."
>>> >>>
>>>
>>>
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>>
>>
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