Launched in a sea of beer
In 1968, the General Dynamics shipyard in Quincy, Massachusetts denied the rumor that it was going to launch the USS Milwaukee by floating it out in a "sea of beer," but company officials admitted they had been considering the idea. They figured that it would "add distinction and excitement to the float-out."
They calculated that it would have required 68 million quarts of beer to achieve the float-out, and abandoned the idea because "we just couldn't figure out what to do with 68 million non-returnable empties."
Related: The Banana-Launched Ship, 1941
They calculated that it would have required 68 million quarts of beer to achieve the float-out, and abandoned the idea because "we just couldn't figure out what to do with 68 million non-returnable empties."
Nashua Telegraph - Sep 10, 1968
Portsmouth Herald - Sep 26, 1968
USS Milwaukee
Related: The Banana-Launched Ship, 1941
Comments
Two years before the E.P.A. was summoned forth from Beelzebub's lair.
Posted by Expat47 in Athens, Greece on 10/16/15 at 10:43 AM
It may have been better to ship 68 million quarts of beer to the Cong, then wait for them to pass out and walk in, thus ending the war.
Posted by KDP on 10/16/15 at 03:10 PM
Beer, its a terrible thing to waste!!! (unless its Shaffers :sick: )
Posted by Patty in Ohio, USA on 10/17/15 at 08:27 AM
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Category: Inebriation and Intoxicants | 1960s