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To: fishtank

“I think that’s very superstitious.”

Sailors are a superstitious lot.


55 posted on 11/30/2020 3:30:30 PM PST by dljordan
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To: dljordan
Sailors are a superstitious lot.

Often with odd things, such as the re-namining of a vessel. I can't recall any WWII historians mentioning that with regard to the same-name replacement of lost carriers during the 1940s (Hornet, Lexington, Wasp, Yorktown...).

The Navy needs to find a creative way of channeling superstition into an effective fire watch while in port.

76 posted on 11/30/2020 4:28:56 PM PST by Charles Martel (Progressives are the crab grass in the lawn of life.)
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