Re: OT-Wrong port arthur

No, but my uncle told me a story of when he was in the South African
Navy, 
a conscript, a they had they destroyers firing at a small stationary
boat 
for about 30 min, and they only destroyed in by actually going out and 
planting explosives aboard.

Corey

At 12:48 PM 2/6/01 +0000, you wrote:
>And, not only were the baltic fleet content with putting shells into
one
>their own cruisers, but when they were off the west coast of africa,
they
>did some target practice with the BBs, and the only thing they hit
(they
>only hit with one shell) was their destroyer that was towing the
target! I
>don`t think you could make up a more incompetent navy even in fiction.
>Anybody got any more info on these clowns?
>
>BIF
>"yorkshire born,yorkshire bred,