Which just goes to show there is nothing new under the sun and WSC's admonition "Study history!" is always relevant. The Venetians attached sponsons to their warships to shallow their draft enough to enable them to enter the lagoon. I doubt the Venetians were the first to do this sort of thing either. Jonathan Hayes
--- On Wed, 8/25/10, Editor/Finest Hour <[email protected]> wrote: From: Editor/Finest Hour <[email protected]> Subject: [ChurchillChat] Re: "Unsinkable Aircraft Carrier" To: "ChurchillChat" <[email protected]> Date: Wednesday, August 25, 2010, 7:21 PM Try deleting previous messages in boxes to shorten these replies. There were also "airborne battleships" with pneumatic bags designed to lift them out of the water to clear shallow spots in a propsed invasion of the Baltic in 1939 (FINEST HOUR 94, Spring 1997, p7). But neither this nor the iceberg carriers have anything to do with the origin of the phrase. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ChurchillChat" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/churchillchat?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ChurchillChat" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/churchillchat?hl=en.
