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Large passenger 'foils plying the busy Gulf coast route roared northward in the direction of Port Aransas, Corpus Christi, and Galveston, southward to La Pesca and Tampico.

According to the briefing, Texas air defense will have been alerted by then, and we can expect light to medium flak as we approach Baytown on the north side of Jacinto Bay, where Galveston narrows into the Houston Ship Channel maze.

Not long ago, a cruise missile from the Galveston had helped sink the Indian carrier Viraat, part of an action fought to stop the Indo-Pakistani war from going nuclear.

Scott extended a collapsible pointer, reached high, and tapped the DIDS screen twice, close by the graphic symbol marking the Galveston.

He had a bad-conduct discharge from the army, had been locked up in a mental asylum in Galveston, had failed totally at AA, and as a farmer couldn't grow thorns in a briar patch.

Galveston and Morgantown, meanwhile, the two Los Angeles-class attack subs attached to CBG-14, were already off the Kola Peninsula.

Galveston had eluded pursuit and reported in, but Bangor had been lost in the strike against Orland, and that was a Pyrrhic victory at best.

Freed of the wire connecting it to the Galveston, the torpedo went to active homing, sending out a stream of sharp pings that reflected from the hull of its slow-moving target and returned like a radar echo, guiding the ADCAP torp toward its prey.

He had recently learned from Galveston that there was no vessel listed in naval or coast guard registries under the name Tiburon.

There was some serious news, local, national and international - it seemed that the town was getting over an outbreak of cholera, related to stress on the water supply, and was having some trouble assimilating its quota of sea-level-rise relocates from Galveston Island - but the serious stuff was mostly swamped by tabloid trivia.

Now we turned our attention to the Invincible, which had run aground in the Gulf outside of Galveston in 1837 and was broken up by pounding surf.

For a stretch of nearly twenty kilometers, from Galveston Bay almost to the San Jacinto Monument, where it makes its looping swing to the west and south, the ship channel was a huge, angry black scar.

He rode around Marion as he had Montpelier, sailed right on through Sweetser and Converse, Wawpekong and Galveston.

Then we cross Galveston Bay with Texas City off our portside, northwest of Galveston.

It had taken him an hour of erratic, pulsing, random motion around Galveston and Texas City and LaMarque before he had been sure how many Federals were following him and what each of them looked like.