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Originally Posted by sonicninja
Slightly "Off Topic" but when I visited the French port of Brest a couple of years back on a Royal Navy Nuclear submarine we received a very frosty welcome from the French sailors and civilians alike.
It prevailed that the reason for this was during the early stages of WW2 the Royal Navy destroyed a large number of French Navy ships tied up alongside Brest in order to prevent them falling into the hands of the ensuing German invasion, bearing in mind these French vessels were fully manned at the time.
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Thought that was in Mers el Kebir
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