Re: Civilian Shipping

At 06:48 PM 8/26/99 -0700, you wrote:
>At 3:43 PM -0400 8/26/99, Ryan M Gill wrote:
>>On Thu, 26 Aug 1999, Thomas Barclay wrote:
>>
>>> An interesting one might be a Falklands-in-space type scenario where
a
>>> major power has impressed a cruise ship as a troop carrier (quite
>>> likely as big ass troop carriers probably are too expensive to keep
>>
>>Passenger Liners were frequently build with government money on a
>>contingency that if the nation went to war, the vessels would be
pressed
>>into serverice by the military for Troop Ship duities. Most Liners
were
>>done so during WWI and WWII.
>
>And proved to be almost worse than useless in actual combat.

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Passenger liners were very rarely pressed into service as warships. 
(Truk
lagoon is an exception)  Instead, they were used as troopships; if your
troopship gets fired on, you're doing something wrong...

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