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Originally Posted by Ishmael
The US is the Only dry navy outside the Muslim world. We can all thank(or curse) then Secretary of the Navy, Josephus Daniels. In 1932, when the nation repealed Prohibition, Daniels, a teetotaler, decided the US Navy would stay dry. Prior to the passage of Prohibition, the US Navy did have a rum ration back to the Revolution.
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I had often wondered about that.
The Royal New Zealand Navy were the last to issue a spirits ration.
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"Pitt was the greatest fool who ever lived to encourage a mode of war which they who commanded the seas did not want, and which, if successful, would deprive them of it." Earl St.Vincent (allegedly)
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