[Tamaroa]

I personally think this is a lot of BS!! I once served on a tug where we would plug up rusted through holes with bags of concrete as we were under way.

In fact at one point, we were told that the boat was so old and decrepid that if it was a civilian boat we would not be allowed to leave the dock. But since we were Coasties we were supposed to know what to do when we had troubles and we had plenty of them.

It galls me to think what would have happened to us had we refused to go to sea in that rust bucket which by the way lasted another quarter century after I left it.

Bill