[rollei_list] Re: Idle Thoughts on the US Memorial Day
- From: Marc James Small <marcsmall@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 21:53:00 -0400
At 09:30 PM 5/28/2008, Carlos Manuel Freaza wrote:
>"Knyaz Suvorov" was the flagship of Admiral
>Rozhestvensky at Tsushima, where it was sunk on 27 May
>1905. She suffered numerous hits from explosive shells
>and was eventually sunk by three torpedo hits fired
>from torpedo boats.
Thanks, Carlos. Yes, PRINCE SUVOROV was the
fleet flagship but an English-language ambiguity
brings Jerry's post into question. He stated the
"lead" battleship which, in English, can mean
either the command ship (flaship) or the ship first in the formation.
And I'm not certain that Jerry's family would
have been permitted to serve in the Tsarist
forces as service to the Crown was then
restricted to followers of the Orthodox faith with a very few exceptions.
Marc
msmall@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Cha robh bàs fir gun ghràs fir!
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