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Old 04-22-15, 01:12 PM   #12
ExFishermanBob
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Originally Posted by em2nought View Post
I'm a fan of USS Constitution as it seemed overbuilt, which is something I can't usually help but try to do. It's a German thing. lol $300,000 seems a deal, oh for the days before the military industrial complex and airplanes without guns(cause that worked really well in Vietnam) Shhh, treason talk. LMAO

Poor Unicorn looks like a prison ship.

Hah! You can (or could) book it for meetings and weddings and so on. In the same dock is the North Carr Lightship (also needing money)
http://www.northcarr-lightship.org/

..and just along the river, the Discovery, of Scott of the Antarctic fame
http://www.rrsdiscovery.com/index.php?pageID=129

Blimey, I sound like a tour guide for Dundee.

One thing they have NOT got, is a submarine. There's a memorial but nothing else (and even that is a bit hard to find).

http://www.secretscotland.org.uk/ind...ets/HMSAmbrose

U2326 surrendered in Dundee and some of the officers were taken aboard the Unicorn.
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