USO Canteen FReeper Style ~ Saturday Afternoon Mantinee ~ January 11 2003

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[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

OK everyone, the weekend is here for most of us!
So how about we relax and visit some of the famous past Saturday Afternoon Mantinees.
Captain America, Superman, The Lone Ranger, The Duke, to name a few.
Just click on the links below!

Feature  1  = Clayton Moore as                               "The Lone Ranger" Feature  2  = Bela Lugosi                                as "Dracula" Feature  3  = John Wayne,                                 "The Duke" Feature  4  = The Shadow    Feature  5  = Flash Gordon          Feature  6  = Wyatt Earp    Feature  7  = Memories           Feature  8  = Dick Tracy    Feature  9  = Captain Kirk           Feature 10 = Buck Jones    Feature 11 = The Lone Ranger -                      a poem by Edgar Guest   Feature 12 = Roy Rogers    Feature 13 = Sci-Fi        Feature 14 = Zorro    Feature 15 = Gene Autry          Feature 16 = Batman    Feature 17 = Tom Mix        Feature 18 = Memories II    Feature 19 = Slim Pickens          Feature 20 = The Green Hornet Feature 21 = I, Jedi  Feature 22 = The Duke   Feature 23 = Superman         Feature 24 = Hi Yo Silver        Feature 25 = ...and Villains  Feature 26 = tick, tick, tick

Feature 27 = Paul Muni  Feature 28 = Captain America  Feature 29 = Rex Allen  Feature 30 = The Wolf Man  Feature 31 = Phantoms  Feature 32 = Ben Cooper  Feature 33 = David Sharpe  Feature 34 = Memories  Feature 35 = Louis L'Amour  Feature 36 = Tarzan  Feature 37 = An X-File  Feature 38 = Batman  Feature 39 = Dick Tracy  Feature 40 = Tim McCoy  Feature 41 = Hoppy  Feature 42 = Musicals  Feature 43 = It's Alive ! ! !  Feature 44 = Real vs. Reel  Feature 45 = Jocko  Feature 46 = Johnny Mack Brown  Feature 47 = Nyuk Nyuk  Feature 48 = Blondie  Feature 49 = Prince Valiant  Feature 50 = Planet X  Feature 51 = Genius  Feature 52 = Vic's Pics  Feature 53 = MacArthur  Feature 54 = Gabby  Feature 55 = The Duke

[southerngrit]

Happy Saturday to you, Ms. Feather.

I've been loafing around all morning - trying to motivate myself to getting the laundry, cleaning, and errands run.

Any motivational speakers in the Canteen?

[fatima]

I ask prayers for my granddaughter,Karen,in the army,19 years old.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good Morning Troops, families, veterans, and Canadian and Israeli allies (and everybody else). Thank you for taking such good care of the USA.

Today in Anchorage, Alaska:

Sunrise 10:02am
Sunset 4:13pm

Hi 35F
Lo 22F

Rather cloudy

Actual yesterday in Anchorage:

Hi 33F
Lo 26F

State Hi 48F Cordova
State Lo -18F Fort Yukon

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good morning, Fatima, and thanks for letting the Canteen know about your granddaughter. Prayers being sent for Karen. Karen, thank you for your service to our country.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy, the shuttle today. Thanks, Aeronaut and Otto, for the flyover of protection today. Supposed to get up to 35F today. ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! Still cold there?

[Kathy in Alaska]

Thanks, Fiddlstix, for the morning refreshments and the oldie tunes. Good filing music.

[Fiddlstix]

Thanks, Fiddlstix, for the morning refreshments and the oldie tunes. Good filing music.

You're welcome J

[Kathy in Alaska]

Long time, no see. Thanks for stopping by. Good evening, by now, for you! How are you knighthawk? Got any snow?

[firewalk]

Hi Kathy, hope you have a nice weekend (-:

thanks for the pings....

[Kathy in Alaska]

ZOWWIE! The "Speed Crew" should be dancing in the streets today! radu, you are IN SERIOUS TROUBLE!!!! Aeronaut, how are you with hopticopters? Man, this thing is hot! I can think of several places that we could "visit" here in the States.

[blackie]

Saturday Afternoon Mantinee ... Bump!

Be Well - Be Armed - Be Safe - Molon Labe!

[Aeronaut]

Aeronaut, how are you with hopticopters?

If the wings go faster than the fuselage it's a helicopter, and therefore unsafe.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Hi BIS. I get to work this weekend. Wishes for a good weekend back attcha.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good afternoon, ms feather

[aomagrat]

Today's classic warship, USS Ossipee

Screw Sloop of War
Displacement. 1,240 t.
Lenght. 207'
Beam. 38'
Draft. 16'10"
Speed. 10 k.
Complement. 141
Armament. 1 100-pdr. r.; 1 11" D.sb.; 3 30-pdr. r.; 6 32-pdrs.; 1 heavy 12-pdr. sb.; 1 12-pdr. r.

The USS Ossipee, a wooden, screw sloop of war, was laid down June 1861 by Portsmouth Navy Yard, Portsmouth, N.H.; launched 16 November 1861; sponsored by Mrs. McFarland, wife of the editor of the Concord Statesman; and commissioned 6 November 1862 Lt. Comdr. Robert Boyd in command.

Ten days later Capt. John P. Gillis took command of the ship and she got underway for Hampton Roads to join the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron in which she served until departing Newport News, Va., 18 May 1863 to join the West Gulf Blockading Squadron off Mobile, Ala. She captured schooner Helena there 30 June and with Kennebec seized steamers James Battle and William Bagley in the Gulf of Mexico 18 July. The former, "the finest packet on the Alabama River...altered to suit her for a blockade runner," was laden with cotton and rosin while the latter carried cotton which they hoped to sell abroad.

In September Ossipee steamed to the coast of Texas for blockade duty until returning to station off Mobile in mid March 1864 as Admiral Farragut built up his forces for the invasion of Mobile Bay. On 5 August, with Itasco alongside, she passed the forts and entered Mobile Bay with Farragut and participated in the ensuing naval battle, playing a large role in the struggle with Tennessee which finally forced the well fought, heavy southern ironclad ram to surrender.

In September Ossipee returned to blockade duty off the Texas coast and, but for repairs at Pensacola late in 1864, served there until moving to New Orleans in April 1865. She was one of the Federal ships to pursue CSS Welb during the Confederate steamer's daring attempt to race down the Mississippi and escape to sea.

Following duty off Mobile, Ossipee sailed North late in June and decommissioned at Philadelphia 3 July.

Recommissioned 27 October 1866, Capt. George F. Emmons in command, Ossipee served in the north pacific protecting American interests along the coasts of Mexico and Central America. She departed San Francisco 27 September 1867 for Sitka, Alaska, carrying Russian Commissioners for the ceremony transferring that valuable and strategic territory to the United States 18 October.

After serving in the Pacific into spring 1872, Ossipee headed home 6 June, arrived New York 18 November, and decommissioned there on the 30th.

Recommissioned 10 October 1873, the veteran sloop of war served in the North Atlantic. She departed Key West 15 December for Tortugas to wait filibustering steamer Virginius which had been seized on the high seas by Spanish cruiser Tornado under fraudulent American registry. To help ease tension caused by the incident, Spain turned the prize over to the United States, represented by Captain Whiting, commander of Despatch at Bahia Honda, Cuba. Despatch took Virginius to Tortugas. Ossipee departed Tortugas 19 December towing Virginius north, but the notorious prize foundered off Cape Hatteras a week later. Ossipee continued operations in the North Atlantic until decommissioning at Boston 25 May 1878.

Recommissioned 28 January 1884, Ossipee departed Hampton Roads 30 April for the Far East via Gibraltar and the Suez Canal and served on the Asiatic station until returning to New York 15 February 1887. She then served along the Atlantic coast and in the West Indies until decommissioning at Norfolk 12 November 1889. She was sold there 25 March 1891 to Herbert H. Ives.

[Soaring Feather]

Reporting in Kathy!

Another email on it's way to the ships at sea!

bentfeather

[Kathy in Alaska]

[Kathy in Alaska]

The Canteen Blessing for the Troops. Thanks, ms feather.

[Radix]

Here is some transportation for the Dudes!

[radu]

The first word that comes to mind when I look at that floral arrangement, Tonk, is "elegant"! The next word is "gorgeous"! Thank you!!

And thank you, men in the Military and Canteen guyz!!

*HUGS* for all!