How (Proper) Blast Cleaning Averted a Naval Conflict

Author:  Michel Cardon
Source:  The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 20 / Issue 2, Spring 2006
Doc ID:  2006016
Year of Publication:  2006
Abstract:  
Michel Cardon puts a humorous spin on an incident that gained his company a work project with the French Navy. What do John Paul Jones, the founder of the U.S. Navy, and Georges Clemenceau, a French politician (1841 - 1929), have in common? Both of these famous names in history have been given to ships. The Clemenceau was a French aircraft carrier and the USS John Paul Jones was a U.S. Naval Destroyer. Moreover, in the 1960