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.
22 September 1981: Calayan Island, Philippines - The foundered frigate BRP Datu Kalantiaw (PS-76, ex-USS Booth) on 22 September 1981. She was driven aground during Typhoon Clara on 21 September 1981 on the rocky northern shore of Calayan Island, in the northern Philippines. 79 of the crew of 97 died.
22 September 1981: Calayan Island, Philippines - The foundered frigate BRP Datu Kalantiaw (PS-76, ex-USS Booth) on 22 September 1981. She was driven aground during Typhoon Clara on 21 September 1981 on the rocky northern shore of Calayan Island, in the northern Philippines. 79 of the crew of 97 died.
ReplyDeleteHmmm, did the air bags go off and the sailors were not wearing their seat
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Is this not the site of the initial wreck? If it is how could so many sailors lose their lives?
DeleteAbandoning ship further offshore during a typhoon would be my guess.
DeleteIn retrospect riding it out would have been a marginally better decision.
DeleteSomethings off on that photo. The scale maybe.
ReplyDeleteLying on its side means its sleeping, right?
ReplyDelete"Now hear this: There will be no movies tonight!"
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