A flagship destroyer, the Selfridge by name--
destroyers are named after heroes:
Thomas O. Selfridge of Civil War fame,--
was one of the first to look up and see those
enemy planes as they charged into Pearl,
and the first ship to fire back: one grand girl!
IN A NUTSHELL
Whether frigate or flagship, clipper or cruiser,
government boat under flag of truce, or
destroyer, battleship, schooner or whaler,
carrier, cutter, steamship or freighter--
all manner of ships through the years had their day
defending and building this U. S. of A.
[Published in delicious fatigue, 1992.
Joe Prichard was my neighbor
when I lived on West Sevier in Benton]
