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.
Saturday, August 27, 2022
The USS Lafayette (ex SS Normandie) on her side after workers started a blaze on board during refit leading to her capsize. New York, 9th February 1942.
Brings to mind the S.S. Noronic fire in Toronto, seven years later. Worse this time, because it was full of sleeping passengers, berthed at the wharf overnight.
always interesting. a video of this fire and sinking exists. thank you for the posts.
ReplyDeleteSneaky Germans
ReplyDeleteBrings to mind the S.S. Noronic fire in Toronto, seven years later. Worse this time, because it was full of sleeping passengers, berthed at the wharf overnight.
ReplyDeleteSame stupid excuses.
https://worldhistoryproject.org/1949/9/17/ss-noronic-fire
WOW, workers did dumb stuff back then also?!?!?!?! And this was before unions, right?
ReplyDeleteNope. NYFC: union labor to the core.
DeleteMore tonnage sunk that week than Nazi subs.
Can that ship be refloated??
ReplyDeletesunk by the NYCFD and the USN.
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