Re: [GZG] John's Shipbuilding

[Brian B <brianbinor@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 1/18/06, Thomas Barclay <kaladorn@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
*snip*
> Now, the feasibility:
>
> People say ship's never surrendered in the age of iron/steel. Well, maybe not. But keep in
> mind that generally, a ship could exit the battle (not alway) and that meant you often
> weren't forced to surrender. Also, some ships did surrender (do I not recall several
> fleets in port surrendering? And some commercial vessels surrendering to commerce
> raiders?).

coincidentally, the Military Channel last night had a documentary on
the Nazi commerce raiders, and spent a great deal of time covering the
exploits of the Penguin, which at one point held the entire Norwegian
whaling fleet hostage, and was eventually sunk by the HMS Cornwall.

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