From: V SCHWARTZ (vsaws@optonline.net)
Date: Mon Jan 09 2006 - 18:06:28 PST
Only if it is outfitted with a carc PRC 27 then it might belong to the
CoastGuard
----- Original Message -----
From: "Glen Closson" <glen_closson@earthlink.net>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Monday, January 09, 2006 6:16 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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