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.
Grounded, holed and rudderless. I wouldn't writer her off as a TCL just yet, but after a few tidal cycles, unless she is soundly anchored, she's toast.
I was wrong. That's the SMS Adler, lost at Apia in 1889. She was a sold for scrap, with little but the ships ordnance being salvaged. She's hard aground on the reef.
Grounded, holed and rudderless. I wouldn't writer her off as a TCL just yet, but after a few tidal cycles, unless she is soundly anchored, she's toast.
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DeleteI was wrong. That's the SMS Adler, lost at Apia in 1889. She was a sold for scrap, with little but the ships ordnance being salvaged. She's hard aground on the reef.
ReplyDeleteSMS Adler, sunk in the 1889 Apia (Samoa) cyclone.
ReplyDeleteShe'd a list to the port with her sails in rags
ReplyDeleteAnd the Cook in the scupper with the staggers and jags
strip molded?
ReplyDeleteBeyond careening.
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