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[Ralph Katzenell]

Greetings all.

Can anyone verify this story?
Anything to add to it?
Can anyone say what distillery was captured?

Ralph
> >
> >
> >
> >Naval History lesson:
> >
> >The U.S.S. Constitution (Old Ironsides) as a combat vessel 
> carried 48,600
> >gallons of fresh water for her crew of 475 officers and men. This was
> >sufficient to last six months of sustained operations at sea. She 
> carried 
> >no
> >evaporators (fresh water distillers).
> >
> >However, let it be noted that according to her log, "On July 27, 
> 1798, the
> >U.S.S. Constitution sailed from Boston with a full complement of 475
> >officers and men, 48,600 gallon s of fresh water, 7,400 cannon 
> shot, 11,600
> >pounds of black powder and 79,400 gallons of rum."
> >
> >Her mission: "To destroy and harass English shipping."
> >
> >Making Jamaica on 6 October, she took on 826 pounds of flour and 
> 68,300>gallons of rum.
> >Then she headed for the Azores, arriving there 12 November. She 
> provisioned>with 550 pounds of beef and 64,300 gallons of 
> Portuguese wine. On 18
> >November, she set sail for England .
> >
> >In the ensuing days she defeated five British men-of-war and 
> captured and
> >scuttled 12 English merchantmen, salvaging only the rum aboard each.
> >
> >By 26 January, her powder and shot were exhausted.
> >Nevertheless, and though unarmed, she made a night raid up the 
> Firth of
> >Clyde in Scotland.  Her landing party captured a whiskey 
> distillery and
> >transferred 40,000 gallons of single malt Scotch aboard by dawn.
> >
> >Then she headed home.
> >
> >The U.S.S. Constitution arrived in Boston on 20 February 1799, 
> with NO
> >cannon shot, NO powder, NO food, NO rum, NO wine, NO whiskey and 
> 38,600>gallons of stagnant water.
> >
> >GO NAVY!
> 
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