Previously, Balladeer’s Blog has covered several American privateer vessels of the Revolutionary War. As our 250th birthday approaches, I’ll take a look at one of our privateer ships from the War of 1812.
THE CHASSEUR – This vessel was granted its Letter of Marque to prey on British shipping and take prizes on February 23rd, 1813. The Chasseur had 16 cannon and a crew of 160.
From July 1813 to Christmas of that year, William Wade captained this ship as it ran through the British blockade the previous month and was looking for prey in the West Indies come July. The Chasseur seized between 6-11 British vessels during this cruise. Continue reading
RONALD THE GHOUL, real name Jerry Sandford, hosted the WVEC Norfolk and Hampton, Virginia version of Shock Theater on Friday nights at 11:30. 
Jerry Sandford’s Shock Theater had its own Maurice the Cool Ghoul (Frank Van), who was a beatnik ghoul and wore a monster mask in the show’s early years but then donned a beret and a goatee to enhance his beatnik image. Completing Ronald’s supporting cast was Vicki McKee as the beauty to Ronald and Maurice’s beasts. 
Back in 2017 when rational people were first getting fully exposed to the deranged anti-Donald Trump hysteria from Democrats I made a blog post joking about how obsessive their Trump hatred was. When they removed video of Trump in a harmless cameo in Home Alone 2 I facetiously said they would soon “ADD Trump to old media”, as in this scene from M*A*S*H. 
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