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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Mountain Man: [QB] This reminds me of a real life incident from WW2.A cruiser in the early days of the war in the pacific war,had been heavily damaged.She was in tow with damage control parties working to put out fires.The decision had to be made whether to heave to and allow most of the crew to board an escort vessel.There was a big posibility of Jap subs still in the area.The crew stayed aboard.A couple of hours later the Magazine blew.Only a handful of the crew survived.Who's to say that the decision to stay was wrong?If they had hove to, that would have put the cruiser towing them dead in the water in an area infested with jap subs.The escort destroyer would likely have been damaged by the blast(the forward turret flew three miles,actually passing over the other cruiser and striking the water ahead of her).Hard to say. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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