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Old 12-03-13, 07:19 PM   #70
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Originally Posted by DesertGhost View Post
Haha, well as the European I am I always tend to choose for the metric units instead of the imperial units
(and for U-505 it probably also was 700m )
but since it was an American ship I was speaking of, I will change it to 800 yards

How about 1530 cubits? That predates both Metric and Imperial, I think, although it doesn't have an international standard sitting under glass in some lab in Paris
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