Want to know what’s wrong at the 7th Fleet? Look at the 4 top commanders awards. They are all office poages!

Which explains why there are no (few) Americans. Cuba allows Canucks!

there was a comma between 3" gun and 50 caliber. It was not terribly good punctuation but it did separate the 2 articles.

Those “higher sides” are known as freeboard. The article states it was used in the Atlantic to tug coal barges from Norfolk to the Azores, which are off the coast of Africa. It was NOT necessarily a coastal vessel.