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Murdo
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Posted: Friday, December 09, 2005 - 06:23 AM UTC

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Some of you seem to want to put 20th century variations on what would have been long-standing naval traditions.

Cheers,
Jim


Sorry Jim, I suppose I'm just supporting the old Army view that the the Royal Navy is really just a Taxi Service for the Army.
BM2
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Posted: Thursday, April 06, 2006 - 07:17 PM UTC

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The deck ape gave the proper definition.
And Roger was pretty close why subs are called boats, except the crew looked and smelled like pigs at the end of a voyage, they were called "pigboats"....

Oh... my old BJM, defines the difference, just about the sames as BM/2c Fields does.

Ships carry boats...
Boats can't carry ships.

Yep DECK APE and damn proud of it ! How man BM's does it take to change a light bulb?-
None We aint afaid of the dark!
You still have a BlueJackets Manual?
Grumpyoldman
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Posted: Friday, April 07, 2006 - 01:08 AM UTC
Yes John, I just picked up a copy of a 1950 edition.

If they weren't afraid of the dark, why were they the first on the phone to tell us we lost a generator....
like we couldn't figure that out........ :-)
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Posted: Friday, April 07, 2006 - 02:09 AM UTC

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boats can't carry or stow another boat.


Even in the days of "fighting sail" there would be "boats" like a yacht for example, that could still carry and stow other boats.

I still think the best way to say it is a ship can carry a boat, a boat can't carry a ship.

As far as the BJM there are always plenty of them for sale on ebay. I had mine from NJROTC in high school for years, since it had a lot of pratcial information in it, but it went away when I got married.
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