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Old 07-21-11, 08:54 AM   #4
Osmium Steele
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Originally Posted by Growler View Post
Poor Jim, always getting picked on.

I was going to ask why it was that a British sub was named after a North American aboriginal people, before I remembered that Canada had the boat, making Ojibwa a perfectly sensible name. Hey, it's early and I'm still getting my coffee.
Yup, the first three O class boats sent to Canada were all named for N. American tribes.

Today, somebody would protest the naming and force them to change it.

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