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.
and "son-of-a-gun" traces back to the practice of gunners being entertained in port by ladies on the gun deck. Hence the product of such liaisons being accurately named.
The old Google image search is apparently gone, the new Google 'Lens' (whatever that means) says its a Spanish museum reproduction that contains reproduction cannon and some original ones. I installed the phones for the USS Constitution museum many, many years ago; I still remember their phone number, 617-426-1812.
Wooden ships, iron men, and I'd say you had to be made of iron to service that battery of cannons underway. Not a job for the faint hearted.
ReplyDeleteExactly.
DeleteImagine being on that deck during a naval engagement.
And now you understand the meaning of the phrase "Loose cannon."
Deleteand "son-of-a-gun" traces back to the practice of gunners being entertained in port by ladies on the gun deck. Hence the product of such liaisons being accurately named.
Delete"Arrrr...fetch me grog, wench, 'fore I keel haul ye."
ReplyDeleteMissing is Capt Jack Aubrey and a few hundred men
ReplyDeleteForget the fictional Limey. Go with John Paul Jones, with a picked crew, and a few good Marines.
DeleteHMS Victory? Or Old Ironsides?
ReplyDeleteBeen so long, but it looks like the USS Constitution gun deck.
ReplyDeleteThe old Google image search is apparently gone, the new Google 'Lens' (whatever that means) says its a Spanish museum reproduction that contains reproduction cannon and some original ones.
ReplyDeleteI installed the phones for the USS Constitution museum many, many years ago; I still remember their phone number, 617-426-1812.
I used images search and got that it is a Shutterstock images of "Wooden pirate ship for tourists in Genova port."
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