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Robert Charles Linford
Assistant Commissioner
Username: Robert
Post Number: 2767
Registered: 3-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, August 01, 2004 - 2:51 pm: |       |
Apparently Jack joined the US navy :
(July 19th 1894)
Robert |
Jeffrey Bloomfied
Inspector
Username: Mayerling
Post Number: 430
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, August 01, 2004 - 4:09 pm: | |
Hi Robert,
The U.S navy was being slowly modernized and expanded in the 1880s and 1890s. The names were supposed to be those of cities or states (like the "U.S.S. Maine"). But it was a period of extreme nationalistic fervor. When, in 1906, the British super battleship, H.M.S. Dreadnought, was launched, an American Senator suggested the name, "U.S.S. "Skeerd of Nothing".
But why "Jack the Ripper"? They might as well have nicknamed it "U.S.S. Dr. H.H.Holmes" or "U.S.S. Dr. Carlyle Harris".
Jeff |
Scott Suttar
Inspector
Username: Scotty
Post Number: 156
Registered: 5-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, August 01, 2004 - 11:38 pm: | |
Hi Robert & Jeffrey,
I added a post of an article I found a while back on a ship named the "Saucy Jack". It can be found HERE.
Scotty. |
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