"Takin' Twenty" with the Virginian Brethren by Skip Salmon

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Off subject, so very briefly - 
_http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_ship_naming_conventions_ 
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_ship_naming_conventions)  for  the use of "Maru".
 
Dave Phelps
 
 
In a message dated 10/15/2010 7:02:14 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
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We or course discussed the rescue of the miners in Chile, even as we were  
having supper. This led to a discussion by Wis Sowder and Ken McLain about  
unloading coal at Sewells Point. Ken had the job of ordering the hoppers 
from  the yard to "blend" the coal for incoming ships. Wis and Ken remembered 
that a  lot of the ships were from Japan. Ken said that most of them had two 
names and  the second part of the name was "Maru or something similar". He 
said that a  Japanese ship named the "Maru" once made a very perilous 
journey, so they  named all of their coal ships after that one.

I've forgotten the  source, but someone told me in Japanese, "Maru" means 
sea.  Of course, it  didn't
matter at Lamberts Point because any ship flying the "rising sun" was  
called a "Jap".  N&W stationed
several employees on board the colliers as they loaded -- to make sure  
coal was being dispersed to
all corners of the bunker. It's possible to load a ship with coal  without 
filling up the corners.  These
employees would occasionally go to the galley for snacks during down  time. 
 In loading a "Jap", one
foreman told his associate, "You gotta try the lobster tails."  He  
responded, "that's not lobster; it's squid."
                                                                            
                         Harry Bundy     
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