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01-21-21, 10:01 AM | #15031 |
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I don't get it. A passenger ship or liner is not a warship (even as a troop transport), a monitor seldom sailed without escort.
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01-21-21, 10:10 AM | #15032 |
Shark above Space Chicken
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Merchant raider. Anyway it was just a guess before running off to work.
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01-21-21, 10:18 AM | #15033 |
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She had a few roles during her career and her first conversion turned her into an auxiliary cruiser (according to Wiki anyway).
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01-21-21, 10:24 AM | #15034 |
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RMS Aquitania.
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01-21-21, 10:35 AM | #15035 |
Chief of the Boat
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01-21-21, 12:00 PM | #15036 |
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01-21-21, 12:03 PM | #15037 |
Fleet Admiral
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One of the tower on Hogwarts great hall
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01-21-21, 12:12 PM | #15038 |
Chief of the Boat
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A castle?
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01-21-21, 12:13 PM | #15039 |
Gefallen Engel U-666
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is it in Canada?
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01-21-21, 12:25 PM | #15040 |
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A Royal Mail Ship becomes a "warship", then a hospital ship. Ok, some say the Lusitania also was a warship, but ..
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01-21-21, 12:31 PM | #15041 |
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it was certainly carrying munitions and thus a proper military target....if not a 'strategic' defeat though, for pissing off the 'Mericans; ultimately leading to their involvement in hostilities.
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01-21-21, 12:36 PM | #15042 |
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P'd off the US ok, but official history tells us the sinking was a war crime, and that the Zimmermann telegram lead to the declaration of war.
But let's not go into this here, or i might develop into a "Reichsbuerger".
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01-21-21, 12:56 PM | #15043 | |
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Quote:
No. Of course.
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01-21-21, 01:00 PM | #15044 |
Chief of the Boat
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Canadian Parliament?
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01-21-21, 01:07 PM | #15045 |
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