Maybe the WWII Q ship, the HMS President, docked in the Thames, could be sent for a cruise.
Posted on 11/06/2005 2:40:49 PM PST by mdittmar
Edited on 11/07/2005 12:17:34 AM PST by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
Maybe the WWII Q ship, the HMS President, docked in the Thames, could be sent for a cruise.
No, they certainly weren't democratic. I'm sure they were from the bizarre part-criminal/part-ideological/part-Islamic/part-Marxist movement that seems to dominate much of Africa.
There's no reason for Africa, which has all sorts of riches, to be as badly off as it is, except for the political/ideological mismanagement there.
That boat didn't look very inflatable. Anyboday have a link to the video?
The picture doesn't look like any rubber dingy I've ever seen.
If they are ordinary pirates running them down is a good idea. If they are suicide bombers, running them down places the bomb right where it will do the most damage.
A cruise ship should be able to outrun most of these. I wonder what is going to happen when the bad guys decide to use a faster boat?
Personally, I've suspected the pirates going after that Seabourne ship were secretly there for boat drinks on the Lido deck....
I gather that these cruise ships do not carry weapons even if they are going into dangerous waters? Someone is nuts.
If it has a pizeo-electric crystal in its nose element and some type of graze sensitive feature, it can not be disarmed. You normally blow those in place. You put the charge on the side of it in order to crush the cone so there will be no shaped charged formed.
However there are times when you can not blow it place and you have to handle it and move it to a place where you can. These are the times you earn your hazardous duty pay.
The RPG 7's or what ever they are now normally have the crystal and the graze sensitive feature.
If they never got on board how do they know what they are?
"Oh good. I thought they were going to send me in there to get it."
Those things used to be called the Detachment Commander. I guess that kind of helps explain the PTSD problem I have.
Actually, I don't believe these were pirates. I've seen pictures of the ship that was attacked. This being a rather isolated part of the world, they likely have just begun to see "Love Boat" episodes, and, not realizing it was only a sitcom and mistaking this ship for the similar "Pacific Princess", were simply trying to keep
Gopher, the Doc', Isaac, Julie and Captain Stubing from coming ashore with hundreds of over-the-hill actors and actresses looking for love.
Strategypage.com has written many times about the high level of pirate activity in this part of the world. This is far from a rare phenomenon. They are probably pirates first and moslems second, but should be hunted down and eliminated either way.
They look like the "Pirates who don't do Anyhting - Right" /sarcasm
Arrgh, ye got off easy this time, matey!
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"Pirates," my arse.
Those bastards were islamanazi terrorists, Hell-bent on mass-murder.
What in the world will it take to sheet home that we are engaged in a World War for the survival of our very Civilization??
Civil War in France, perhaps?
E-2 remote pull....:o)
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