James Miller

 

Tuesday, August 09, 2005

 

The Navy's Here!

In 1940 when HMS Cossack of the Navy rescued the sailors torpedoes by the Graf Spee and held captive in the German ship Altmark in a Norwegian fjord, they went in with the cry of "The Navy's here!"

They did the same when they retook the Channel Islands from the Germans in 1945.

Did they go in with the same cry in Kamchatka, when they rescued the Russian submariners?

Perhaps not in voice, but they certainly did in spirit! Even if they weren't actually sailors but contractors! Still the reason for that is that the technology was developed privately for the North Sea oil industry rather than for the Navy.

I bet when they make the film, that the rescuers will be from the US Navy!

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