Thread: Brooms on subs?
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Old 03-16-07, 05:43 PM   #3
Tigrone
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Default I've a broom at the mast!

Look in my sig. It is after Dutch Admiral Maarten Tromp, who legend held, placed a broom at the masthead to show he had swept the sea clean of the foe--the English in his case. There is an old song called "The Admiral's Broom."

"Maarten Tromp was an admiral bold, the Dutchman's pride was he...."
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Commander Hiram Cassedy: "Tigrone has saved the Air Force and is now returning to Iwo Jima with 28 rescued zoomies." B-29 SNUFFY & THE SHIF'LESS SKONKS among them.

I've a broom at the mast said he, for the broom is a sign for me, that wherever I go, I sweep the mighty sea.

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