From: Darrell Ramsell (daram@comcast.net)
Date: Mon Jan 09 2006 - 20:39:29 PST
I think your blow up doll are probably considered a life preserver :-) I
could be consider a boat to if you're riding it :-)
Darrell
----- Original Message -----
From: "J. L." <milveh@dslextreme.com>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Monday, January 09, 2006 5:56 PM
Subject: Re: [MV] a pirate's life for me...
>I don't have any inflatable boats on board, but I do have two blow-up
>dolls,
> does that qualify my river cruiser as a ship? Anyone?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Military Vehicles Mailing List [mailto:mil-veh@mil-veh.org]On Behalf
> Of Glen Closson
> Sent: Monday, January 09, 2006 3:16 PM
> To: Military Vehicles Mailing List
> 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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