Still Waters Run Deep
“Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!” – Admiral Farragut (paraphrased), August 5th, 1864 In the final year of the American Civil War, as part of a larger effort to blockade Confederate ports, Admiral Farragut entered the heavily mined port of Mobile, Alabama. Tethered, underwater mines were known as ‘”torpedoes” in those days. As his fleet … Continued