Posted on 04/21/2007 7:44:44 AM PDT by BnBlFlag
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So what was the name of the boat that captured the U-boat?
you're a JOKE to everyone on FR, who has read your SILLY/arrogantly IGNORANT/fact-FREE posts. you are RUINED.
free dixie,sw
otoh, since you evidently have NO life, why don't you go look through "DUH, snake's" many SILLY/FALSE posts. it will give you something to do, besides posting DUMB/PHONY-BALONEY nonsense that NOBODY believes.
free dixie,sw
you're a "target for common RIDICULE" to almost everyone on FR. (well perhaps i should say, at least those who bother to read your BILGE & NONSENSE.) as you are WELL aware, i said that THE AUTHOR of a BOOK titled YACHTS AGAINST SUBS said that. (and fwiw, you are FOOLING nobody except your empty-headed SELF. continually "harping on" SILLY queries like that just makes you look STUPID & clueLESS.)
why not go "GET A LIFE" & LEAVE FR forever???
note to ALL: and you wonder WHY i think the members of "the DAMNyankee coven of LEFTISTS, lunatics, HATERS, 'useful idiots', BIGOTS, nitwits, REVISIONISTS & TROLLS" are worthLESS??? (i think NOT! but, they are FUN to laugh AT, anyway!)
free dixie,sw
many FReepers believe him to be "heyworth, the BIGOT/HATER", who was PERMANENTLY banned from FR for LYING to/about other FReepers & generally being a CREEP.
frankly, i do NOT know for sure that he is "heyworthLESS", BUT let me say that he has the same:
1. SILLY fixations,
2. similar repetitive,STUPID, pointLESS questions,
3. similar syntax/sentence structure
4. a similar HATE-filled demeanor on FR &
5. finally, "bubba" magically appeared on FR the day AFTER "heyworth" was BANISHED forever. coincidence??? (i think NOT.)
in any event, he is FUN to ABUSE, make sport of & RIDICULE, if you enjoy "bloodsports".(i do. it's ONE of my LEGION of faults.)
furthermore, ANYTHING/anybody, who damages the "unionists" on FR, performs a GOOD DEED for dixie LIBERTY in the long run, by making the "unionist radicals" LOOK ignorant, clueLESS/stupid, bigoted & hate-FILLED. (thus, several of the "good 'ole rebels" on FR would fight to keep "bubba" & his "DUMB-bunny FRiends ON the forum.)
free dixie,sw
Oh. yeah. The book that no one can find a sign of, other than your say-so.
U.S. Coast Guard 214th Birthday Celebration ~ August 4 2004 ,Then, on another thread, you said,To: All
bet ya'll didn't know that the CG ARMED private fishing boats in the Chesapeake Bay AND provided arms (including water-cooled heavy MGs AND some "light deck guns", read CANNONS!) to the Maryland, New York, Rhode Island, Texas (fyi,all TX gunboats are named/re-named for TX cities, when serving in wartime) and Virginia "state naval forces" (read:PRIVATEERS!), during WW2.SOME of those fishing boats/yachts got into SHOOT-OUTS with German submarines & WON! all of the "privately-crewed gunboats did VALUABLE service to the war effort!
The CITY OF GOLIAD (formerly the 64-foot motor yacht, EEL) captured a U-boat in 1942 & towed it to Galveston,TX as a PRIZE OF WAR! (the U-boat is now berthed in the Galveston County Park.)
The CITY OF GONZALES (formerly the 88-foot sailing yawl, GRAY-HOUND)fought a 2-hour surface battle with another U-boat & SUNK the submarine, with a direct hit from a WW1-surplus ANTI-TANK GUN!
see the book YACHTS AGAINST SUBS by RAM(retired) L.B.N.Gnaedinger for more details! facinating book!
free dixie,sw
36 posted on 08/04/2004 5:24:19 AM PDT by stand watie (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God. -T. Jefferson)
Post #3079 To: capitan_refugioSo, you not only cite Gnaedinger, you cite the Galveston, TX County Courier as support for this tale of a captured U-boat and subsequent legal case, and you can't decide what the name of the capturing boat was. Talk about not being able to keep your story straight. So, when are we going to let the Alexandria synagogue know that you know their history better than they do?as a matter of fact STATES can/DID separately declare war on foreign powers as late as WW2.
MD,RI & TX (and perhaps some other states) declared war on the Axis powers AND commissioned armed gunboats with state naval militia and/or private gunboats under "letters of marque & reprisal".
SEVERAL of those privateers & STATE-owned GUNBOATS ACTUALLY destroyed enemy vessels & one (the gunboat Corpus Christi) actually captured a German submarine (with all the surviving crew), after a surface gun-battle that lasted several hours.
to give you an idea of how NASTY & close quarters the shooting between the gunboat & sub was, consider that MOST of the wounded/dead German sailors "suffered from BUCKSHOT or PISTOL wounds, inflicted during the fight at sea". (source the Galveston,TX County Courier.)
also see: YACHTS AGAINST SUBS, published in 1947 & SUDDEN DEATH ON THE BAY, published in 1960 by the Cheaspeake Bay Historical Assn.
free dixie,sw
Post #3200 To: capitan_refugio
nonetheless these THREE states DID lawfully declare war on the Axis powers, the State of Maryland DID arm & operate STATE-OWNED armed motor & sailing (!) vessels, under their rights to arm/train/utilize STATE naval MILITIA forces AND
RI & TX DID grant letters of marque & reprisal against Germany/Italy/Japan.
NOTE: the US District Court for the Eastern District of Texas (sitting in Houston, TX) DID find in the case of the privateer gunboat,CORPUS CHRISTI, (concerning the German U-Boat gun battle at sea, 1942) in 1945-6 that the Letter of Marque & Reprisal , issued by the Legislature of the State of Texas in Jan 1942, was LAWFUL under the Law of War,
that the SEIZURE of the U-Boat in battle was LAWFUL under the Law of War & that the U-Boat was a lawful PRIZE of WAR, which was rightly the property of the STATE of TX(the submarine is on display in the County Park in Galveston.).
AND that the crew of the captured submarine were NOT prisoners of war of the UNITED STATES, but rather of the SOVEREIGN STATE of TEXAS!
once again, may i suggest that you read YACHTS AGAINST SUBS. (sadly, i do NOT own a copy of the book BUT the University of Houston has at least one copy that can be borrowed through Interlibrary loan.)
fyi, since i wrote about this subject yesterday, i found out that the State of New York MAY have granted some PRIVATE vessels permission to be ARMED & "to prey on enemy shipping & vessels" during WW1. (is this the SAME as a letter of marque? i do NOT know the answer to that question, as i'm NOT a maritime lawyer, but it certainly sounds like the same thing.)
free dixie,sw
What do you suppose the chance is of getting her to haul down those colors?
Makes you wanna salute those colors, doesn’t it?
"get a LIFE", TROLL.
fwiw, DU awaits your arrival, with bated breath. TROLLS, IDIOTS, CREEPS & FOOLS are STARS on DU. BE GONE!
fwiw, my UNsupported "word" is accepted as FACT, by about 100 times as many FReepers than yours will EVER be. your REPUTATION on FR is that of a FOOL/LIAR/lunatic & TROLL.
free dixie, sw
And yet they never seem to speak up on these threads. The thing is, I don't ask people to take my unsupported word. I post evidence along with my claims, such as the photo of the historical marker in Alexandria that contradicts your claims. You only sputter and say we should believe you.
Another example: You claim that the real Stand Watie was too poor to afford a horse and never owned slaves. I post Oklahoma Historical Society transcripts of letters from his wife saying that they own at least a couple of horses and transripts of the 1860 census saying that he owned several slaves. Your response? “Those sources are wrong. Believe ME instead, with no supporting documents”
Yeah, and I don't have the time to dig through your old posts to find the one where you admit that you're just making all this stuff up for laughs, and that no one should believe a word of what you say.
See how that works? I can claim you said just about anything if I follow your example and refuse to provide evidence.
STAND, generally it is considered impolite to point out anything someone else has said without Pinging them to that thread.
Have you forgotten your little time out from the last time we tangled?
Or how I proved you didn’t even know That The Confederate Museum in New Orleans was on Lee Circle facing a Statue of General Lee on the tallest monolith devoted to General Lee in all the states of the Confederacy?
Frankly having beaten you so severely in that battle of wits, you offer me no challenge and I have ignored you so far.
Don’t push your luck I’ve forgotten more about the Confederacy then you have made up.
There is only one “U-Boat” berthed in Galveston, and that the USS Cavalla.
I suppose we could say it was captured from the Union Navy by texans.
you are considered either a FOOL and/or a TROLL, whose "word of honor" is a JOKE.
laughing AT you.
free dixie,sw
free dixie,sw
HINT: it's "the little people" that ARROGANT, mean-SPIRITED, liars fail to consider and who are PLEASED to expose the LIAR. and ARROGANT, SELF-important people NEVER notice those whom they think UNimportant (cutodians/janitors/maids/dishwashers/busboys are INVISIBLE to SELF-important "big-shots").
a "nice older lady", who ACTUALLY worked at the Confederate Museum in NOLA (when you CLAIM to have worked there), says she NEVER saw anyone, who resembled the picture of the marine, which you said was YOU. thus, either YOU never worked there OR the picture you posted is NOT of you.
would you care to ADMIT that you misled everyone about "working at" the museum??? (NO?? i thought NOT.)
my GUESS is that you maybe VISITED the museum once or twice & nothing else.
free dixie,sw.
it seems to me that you're just another LOUD-mouthed, SELF-important "expert" in NOTHING, who also is a south-HATER.
have you forgotten that you were asked repeatedly WHAT, if ANY, "academic preparation" and/or "credentials" you have in history or any other recognized academic discipline & NEVER answered??? (note: PHONEY-BALONEY "diplomas" from the backs of comic books & those "offers" printed inside the covers of matchbooks don't count as "credentials".)
btw,when i posted to "ALL", i presume that that INCLUDES "you", too. OR could it be that you think you're somehow more "SPECIAL" than everyone else here on FR???
free dixie,sw
the "sex objects" of "today" look like prepubescent BOYS, when compared to CURVY "movie goddesses"like Marilyn Monroe,Ann Margaret,Sophia Loren, Gina Lollabridgitta,Raquel Welch,Julie Christi, Annette Funicello,Ursala Andress,Jayne Mansfield, etc.
nonetheless, i find her choice of bikinis GRAND! i'm GLAD that she's "showing the flag".
free dixie,sw
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