Granite City Roller Girls Granite City Roller Girls "Granite City Roller Derby" (GCRD) is a roller derby league based in Aberdeen, Scotland. Founded in 2007, the league currently have two teams which compete with teams from other leagues. Originating as the Aberdeen Aces, GCRD were the second established roller derby league in Scotland. The league struggled in the early days to find a training hall to practice in and resorted to skating in a local car park when weather allowed. In November 2008, the league began skating at the Aberdeen Lads Club, and was reborn as the "Granite City Roller Girls". In May 2010,
USS Granite City (1863) to help support the troop landings because her shallow draft allowed her to cross the bar and lie close to shore. She crossed the bar in company with , , and during the Second Battle of Sabine Pass on 8 September 1863, with her upper deck carrying several hundred Union Army infantrymen. When withering fire of Confederate batteries forced the surrender of "Sachem" and "Clifton", and the "Arizona" now receiving undivided attention of the fort's artillery, "Granite City" backed out of the Pass and returned to invasion fleet of 18 other warships waiting offshore. "Sachem" and "Clifton" were disabled and