The sea hippies duplicated the feat years later with the Ady Gil previously called Earthrace.
I'm no fan of whaling or whalers, but I'd have loved to see the Japs mount a little 3" naval gun on their whalers and take out those pirates from a couple of miles away.
82 posted on 10/13/2014 9:52:49 AM PDT by JimRed
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