Drew
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- Oct 22, 2012
I will point out in case readers of your few posts on this thread walk away thinking that the Civil War era U.S. Navy and their crews were nothing more than criminals and thieves, that the sharing of prize monies among ships and their crews was the norm of most country's navies. For example, the British Royal Navy had been doing such since the 17th century and the sharing of prize monies was later extended to the British Army as well as to the Royal Naval Air Service and the later Royal Air Force.
"They did it, too," in other words? Thank you for clarifying.