By W. E. B. Griffin
ISBN-10: 0515114863
ISBN-13: 9780515114867
October 1942. At a mystery rendezvous element off the coast of impartial Argentina, a small service provider send provides provides to Nazi submarines and raiders. The OSS is deternined to sabotage the operation whatsoever worthy. yet one of many key saboteurs they've enlisted--a younger U.S Marine--must struggle his personal deepest conflict among responsibility and honor. simply because he used to be selected for a reason--to achieve belief and aid of his personal flesh and blood. a robust Argentinian referred to as "el Coronel." the daddy he by no means knew...
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The Merrimac as an ironclad was faster under steam 32 THE MERRIMAC AND THE MONITOR than she had ever been before with her top hamper of masts and sails. I presented myself to the commodore. "The machinery is all right, sir," I assured him. Across the river at Newport News gleamed the batteries and white tents of the Federal camp and the vessels of the fleet blockading the mouth of the James, chief among them the Congress and the Cumberland, tall and stately, with every line and spar clearly denned against the blue March sky, their decks and ports bristling with guns, while the rigging of the Cumberland was gay with the red, white, and blue of sailors' garments hung out to dry.
They had seen us, too, and were getting up steam. Bright - colored signal flags were run up and down the masts of all the ships of the Federal fleet. The Congress shook out her topsails. Down came the clothes-line on the Cumberland, and boats were lowered and dropped astern. Our crew was summoned to the gun-deck, and Buchanan addressed us: "Sailors, in a few minutes you will have the long-looked-for opportunity of showing your devotion to 34 THE MERRIMAC AND THE MONITOR our cause. Remember that you are about to strike for your country and your homes.
Some of the workmen in the navy-yard scuttled and sank her, thus putting out the flames. When she was raised by the Confederates she was nothing but a burned and blackened hulk. Her charred upper works were cut away, and in the center a casement shield one hundred and eighty feet long was built of pitch-pine and oak, two feet thick. This was covered with iron plates, one to two inches thick and eight inches wide, bolted over each other and through and through the woodwork, giving a protective armor four inches in thickness.
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