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Re: 12-power sextant scopes... Why?
From: Fred Hebard
Date: 2024 Jan 11, 15:16 -0500
From: Fred Hebard
Date: 2024 Jan 11, 15:16 -0500
Perry’s original landing place was Shimatsu on the tip of the Izu Peninsula, IIRC. He had steamships, able to blow away any sailing vessels the Japanese had. It wasn’t like China. The Tokugawas had not festered as much as the Chinese dynasty, and the Japanese responded quickly and thoroughly, bringing in the Meiji.
On Jan 11, 2024, at 12:46, NavList Community <NavList@fer3.com> wrote:* Matthew Perry who led the naval "diplomatic" mission to Edo (Tokyo) was a "local boy"... born about ten nautical miles from where I am typing this message. His older brother, Oliver Hazard Perry, became a naval hero decades earlier. Oliver H. P. also got a sail-training square-rigged ship here in RI named after him in 2015. It's a lovely steel-hulled monster, a white elephant --about as useful as a 12-power sextant scope.
