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To: naturalman1975
This battle was literally something out of World War I, when disguised German commerce raiders caused no end of trouble for the Royal Navy (this was one of the reasons why the Royal Navy unveiled the Q-ship to lure in unsuspecting commerce raiders and U-boats).
4 posted on 07/13/2015 2:49:24 PM PDT by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's economic cure)
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To: RayChuang88

if you havent read it, check out the story on Felix Luckner, old school sailor in WW1, took a sailing ship, around south america , into the pacific. as a raider, he sank about 20 ships, with a lot of luck, and effort, did it without killing anyone on the other ships. modern day pirate. very interesting guy.


9 posted on 07/13/2015 3:16:08 PM PDT by tm61 (Election 2012: we find it IS possible, to polish a turd.)
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