To: yankeedame
Thanks for the post, from a naval historian.
2 posted on
02/07/2004 8:19:25 AM PST by
uncbuck
(Sumner Redstone is the anti-christ.)
To: uncbuck
The captain killed himslelf because the British tricked him into thinking their task force had arrived, when in fact it was a few days away. After the fact he found out his ship could have left port safely.
By all accounts the man was a chivalrous officer who didn't buy into the Nazi crapola.
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