AtDTDA: Foley Walker

[robinlandseadel at comcast.net]

I just opened Castles of Steel by Robert Massie, a nice fat book on naval 
warfare during the era of AtD. This sequence is from 1913. The first time a 
British ship fires on a German ship. Please to note the name/company of the 
vessel.

The target was the 1,800-ton Hamburg-American Line excursion steamer Konigin 
Luise, whose peacetime work was ferrying passengers back and forth from Hamburg 
to Heligoland. On the eve of the war, she had been moved into a dockyard, 
repainted in the colors of the British Great Eastern Railway steamers plying 
between Harwich and the Hook of Holland, and loaded with 180 mines. On the 
evening of August 4, while the British ultimatum still waited unanswered in 
Berlin. Konigin Luise slipped out to sea with a patchwork crew of peacetime 
sailors and navy regulars. Her mission was to use her disguise to sow mines in 
the shipping lanes off the mouth of the Thames. Pgs. 77/78

Of course, you all remember the Stupendica's transformation into the Emperor 
Maximillian?

Someone from Austria:

He was a particularly clever boy, showing considerable taste for the arts and 
displaying an early interest in science, especially botany. He was trained for 
the navy, and threw himself into this career with so much zeal that he quickly 
rose to high command, and was instrumental in creating the naval port of Trieste 
[citation needed] and the fleet with which Admiral Wilhelm von Tegetthoff won 
his victories in the Italian War. Very much influenced by the progressive ideas 
in vogue at the time, he had some reputation as a liberal, and this led, in 
February 1857, to his appointment as viceroy of the Kingdom of Lombardy-Venetia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximilian_I_of_Mexico

And also remember:

http://tinyurl.com/2pbcbs

http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/lines/hamburg.html

But in particular [this is the Gravity's Rainbow link, in case anyone's 
interested], just Google 

                           Hamburg American Line Prescott Bush

[Prescott is Foley's young apprentice, see?]

http://www.natf.org/wad/foley.htm

As in following in the footsteps of. So it's TRP's karma too, C?