And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Friday, July 3, 2020
Launching of the USS Nautilus; Groton, Connecticut, USA, 1952
A boat wrapped in glory for its cutting edge deeds. Yet, I have wondered, the Nautilus in Verne was a doomed boat. Many Nautilus-named boats have been submarines of various navies. I am not sure I'd like being assigned to a ship/boat named Nautilus. Kinda like one named Thunderchild. (Look it up, the ram HMS Thunderchild.)
Kinda makes me wonder about all the detailed explanations attached to old weapons; Axe-Norse (left-handed) owned by Harold No Nose between 951-985AD, and the illustration looked like a dried turd surrounded by brown dust.
A boat wrapped in glory for its cutting edge deeds. Yet, I have wondered, the Nautilus in Verne was a doomed boat. Many Nautilus-named boats have been submarines of various navies. I am not sure I'd like being assigned to a ship/boat named Nautilus. Kinda like one named Thunderchild. (Look it up, the ram HMS Thunderchild.)
ReplyDeleteI think thats actually USS Seawolf, SSN575. Nautilus has a complete sail while Seawolf had the step sail that this boat shows.
ReplyDeleteNautilus, Seawolf? They all look alike to me.
DeleteI believe the Nautilus was launched in 1954
ReplyDeleteIt's Seawolf, launched 1955.
ReplyDeleteConfirming previous commenters, Nautilus did in fact have the full sail and was in fact launched on January 21st, 1954.
ReplyDeletehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Nautilus_(SSN-571)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Seawolf_(SSN-575)
ReplyDeleteYup, it's Seawolf.
Kinda makes me wonder about all the detailed explanations attached to old weapons; Axe-Norse (left-handed) owned by Harold No Nose between 951-985AD, and the illustration looked like a dried turd surrounded by brown dust.
ReplyDeleteGroton, rhymes with rotten.
ReplyDeleteET1SS 1967-1987
Never had a boat there, but yes it does. My boats were in Hawaii,San Diego
Deleteand Bummerton..... I mean Puget Sound Naval S@$t town.
Just a really expensive, over-engineered tea kettle...….
ReplyDeleteMy grandfather launched out of there on the USS Baya in 1944.
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