Panay's Ghost

I think it's even worse than that: New Orleans struck me as a bartender, meaning she'd pour/mix drinks for everyone else in the room before she got around to herself. I'd be more afraid of her knowing the skeletons in my closet than the other way around.

I doubt it, since I suspect David J would beat me to the punch. I'm not greedy. A whole submarine fleet decked out with 8" guns will do me just fine.

So, if I really, Really, Really,Really, Really, Really, Really work hard at it I could get a 16" gun on Nautilus, right?

You don't say... I don't know whether to bless or curse Käpt'n Korky for introducing me to Postmodern Jukebox, so I'll see his Seven Nation Army for Blue Monday:

So Bismark was just a 50 thousand t delivery device. I have no skin in either game, so I consider Bismark just as doomed as Cossack and Ark Royal.

Yes, but

We've got a couple of weeks before the next Lore question, so to stimulate Lore question ideas I will ask: Where does the legendary mascot cat Unsinkable Sam reside in 1939? For that matter, does Unsinkable Sam start out as simply "Sam" (or Oskar/Oscar) and still have to earn that title? And given the amount of evidence that there's more than a little bit of sailor's story to the legend, is Unsinkable Sam a single cat? ...Or even a cat at all? (U-29, are you busy?)

A little something to get Nerpa in trouble:

From Update #14: (first question answer in blue. Second in red.)

I believe in Update 4 Mahan answered those questions:

The May Incident, which took the might out of Loose Lips Might Sink Ships.

...She captured the Enigma machine...NOT something the Allies wanted put on a headline. In fact, when the USS Guadalcanal successfully captured U-505 on 4 June 1944, the code-breaking department had a fit because they were worried it would jeopardize what Bulldog's prize had been netting them since 1941. ...And don't get me started on the May Incident...

Thanks to Pola, it's been established that a Belle doesn't reflect her ship (heavy cruiser with a "tiny" Belle to Mahan's standards). Otherwise, Bismark, Yamato and Musashi, etc. would surely be giants and all the submarines midgets.

You forgot Nuremberg and Leberecht Maass.

Say it with a deadpan look, in Russian. Or Japanese. Or Turkish, Dutch or Polish. Chinese would be OK, too...

Please think of a tougher challenge, Mignonette. Obviously, you ship her to Ulan Ude, via the Trans-Siberian Railway. ...On an open car and carefully, of course, but she's only a sub. It's not that difficult.

Youtube Redacted your video, David J.

I can't tell if Lexington is saluting Henley, or the sandwich.

...Or her jacket is getting smaller. Or both.

Which military? This is a worldwide forum, after all... If you're talking US Navy, when?

...Because none of them are sternwheelers, of course. Duh...

I checked the Twitter and also noticed a version of La Motte-Picquet:

Did Mahan manage to finish her New Year cards in time?

On January 18, Ninjapacman started it by saying: I like the fubukis. And Kenobi seems popular. I do love her bubble personality, and the fact that she has smiley faces on her boots. ...Too late to correct it, Ninjapacman, the meme has already been born. I can't wait to see who the art-accomplished choose to be her padawan... ...I thought that was Nenohi. Glorious is somebody else .