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[Sandwich Maker]

" From: Lionel Peterson <lionel4287 at verizon.net>
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" >From: Sandwich Maker <adh at an.bradford.ma.us>
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" <snip>
" 
" (MOVED to geeks)
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" >the barbary coast pirates.  one of my ancestors had something to do
" >with them, not one of his more shining moments but his career in
" >general was good enough that his is the most-reused [5 so far] ship
" >name in the us navy.
" 
" Don't tease - what was it?

bainbridge.  destroyers all; #1 was dd1, #5 is burke-class ddg96.  my
mother christened it at bath iron works.

he comanded the constitution in its famous encounter with hms java off
the brazilian coast in the war of 1812, and later he introduced the
idea of enclosed drydocks [at quonset pt, ri] so that ship work could
continue through the winter.

he lost his ship off the barbary coast but destroyed it before the
pirates could gain anything from it, and managed to retrieve every one
of his crewmen.
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