Re: can cobol scale the corporate ladder?

From: Alistair Maclean (alistair_at_ld50macca.demon.co.uk)
Date: 12/11/03 

Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 22:09:55 +0000

In message <3FD7FB53.EA449F7D@shaw.ca>, James J. Gavan <jjgavan@shaw.ca>
writes
>> >Without checking, built about 1791 and was still floating until 1922.
>
>Got that wrong. Keel laid in 1759. She was launched in 1765, but commissioned
>about 1771. Floating until 1921.

I should have spotted that error of yours. Tsk! That I didn't.

>
>>
>> >Now dry docked because the massive oak timbers were being gnawed to
>> >death by the Death
>> >Watch Beetle.
>>
>> Cough! Ship worm actually.
>>
>
>Cough ! Cough ! Death Watch Beetle (and that was from memory only).
>
>Official History ( www.hms-victory.com ) :-
>
>"During the Second World War the ship was closed to visitors and she was
>stripped of her upper masts and rigging. She narrowly escaped
>destruction on the
>night of 10/11 March 1941 when a 500lb high explosive bomb fell into the dry
>dock and burst just under her port bow, blowing a hole 8ft x 15ft in the ships
>side. After the war her restoration continued and she was reopened to the
>public.
>
>After fighting off many enemies, her most formidable foe now was the
>Death Watch
>
>beetle, but between the years 1954 and 1956 she was fumigated with such
>excellent
>results that the beetles were brought under control."
>
>Jimmy
>

She would have been laid up originally because of ship worm or else
because she was no longer a viable fighting machine but death watch
beetle would only have become a problem once she had been dry-docked.
Draw? 

-- 
Alistair Maclean
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