Meanwhile, much to the delight of the Houston Chronicle, Senator Rand Paul makes fun of Rick Perry's new glasses to counter Perry's critique of Paul's isolationist foreign policy positions.
Heather Alexander (author of the German U-boat sinks U.S. ships off the U.S. coastline article above) likes the images of the sunken ship's guns covered in colorful anemonies (as it is such a stark contrast to the violence of war) - maybe she should interview Rand Paul and publish a fluff piece on his 2016 aspirations.
This seems like small pickings for Ballard. Wish he’d go back to the Pacific to find and document the USS Lexington, Wasp, Hornet and the Japanese carriers sunk at Midway.
At first glance, the headline appears that the Germans named a U-Boat after Robert E. Lee.
In those days, convoys would come together outside Cheseapeake Bay ... to prevent sinking-ship contamination of highly productive Cheseapeake waters.
German subs were nightly busy out there ... sinking ships.
The convoys were carrying all sorts of supplies for our desperate allies.
> The Nautilus’ ambitious deep sea expedition launched last month and is funded by BP oil spill reparations.
Interesting, but can anyone tell me why oil spill money is paying for this?
From the H Comical:
“According to historical accounts, a lookout spotted the torpedo coming in and alerted the steamer’s escort, the American submarine chaser USS PC-566. The sub immediately began dropping depth charges.”
Really? The sub dropped depth charges? What sank it?
I don’t believe that “PC-boats” were referred to officially with the prefix “USS”. They were boats, not ships. No steam plant like a destroyer or destroyer-escort would have. Diesel engines instead.
Of course, the S.S. Robert E Lee deserved to be sunk. After all, it was named after a Confederate hero, a defender of slavery. It matters not that it was on a humanitarian mission. All such vestiges of that part of our national history must be condemned and erased; zero tolerance is the only acceptable policy.