Saturday 18 November 2023

HMS Miss Saigon

Anyway, one of the recurring but moderne problems with the ships of Napoleon is that they do not know how to behave properly on the High Seas, preferring to act more like pirates than proper mariners of a proper Navy, so they take over old ships and go and scuttle them on some unfeeling orthodox traditional shoreline like some older Graf Spee for example in the River Plate, cave canem, according to old schemas from the Victorians and the Georgians of George III fame,  a favourite device, as the RN has discovered recently in the Caribbean waters, when the MV Vincent Wang appeared, named innocuously enough after a Chinese Napoleonic martyr of some vintage from the Vietcong side of Vietnam, and this one was operating freely and openly up the Yellow River, now a dark colour of Browne, but that was until the HMS Miss Saigon and the HMS Chanting Chantry came along to spoil that particular ruinous party, parties all there. The girl captains of those two Corvettes soon turned their guns on the murky river gunboat, and sent the MV Vinsent Wang to the bottom with her predictable cargoes of Ferrero Rocher chocolates for the SS Polaris. Sad but true, harsh but true. 

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