Our Captain Bligh is a Lady

 

1. Back in my Navy days, we had a skipper for a short while who never seemed to be happy.  His first words to the crew, after assuming command, was that she was the filthiest ship he had ever seen.  No, she was not.
   If he felt the same way about his officers, he at least kept it in private, and Ms. Graf positively makes him look like a benevolent Santa Claus in comparison.

   I cannot imagine how Graf got that high up on the ladder.

   BoynSea

   Posted by BoynSea       03/06/2010  at  01:10 PM  



2. Poor little sailors, what a shower of wimps, I wonder if in war she would have been a good commander, probably in an old school way. Cant have people on ships swearing like a sailor can we?

   Posted by Chris Edwards       03/06/2010  at  03:15 PM  



3. Chris:

   There’s nothing wrong with a little salty language when it’s appropriate; I still use it to this day when it’s needed.  But when a skipper degrades, debases and demeans his/her own subordinates, the ship is lost. The good people leave, the rest grow sullen.

   I would say this Captain was damn lucky to have not slipped and fell over the fantail late one night while underway.

   BoynSea

   Posted by BoynSea       03/06/2010  at  07:10 PM  



4. Shall we count the days till we hear she’s going to file a complaint with the jag guys over her removal?
   Or how about a pool?

   Posted by Rich K       03/06/2010  at  10:07 PM  



5. Sorry Drew, but you need to google the ACTUAL story of Captain Bligh. Suffice it to say that he was a cut above most of the RN- and indeed most in the Navies of the world at the time- in many, many ways.

   Posted by Turtler       03/07/2010  at  06:30 AM  



6. Oh I’m aware of that Turtler. But his name has become an icon, synonymous for abuse and cruelty. Deserved or not, but the crew did mutiny.

   I could have used Captain Morton, but too few would have remembered James Cagney’s character from Mister Roberts, and as bad captains go he maybe wasn’t so bad. At least Bligh was real and not a Hollywood creation.

   Posted by Drew458       03/08/2010  at  11:06 AM  

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