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minus-squareegrets@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up13·2 months agoHere’s an archive of Wikipedia’s cited source for the story. I kind of feel like a US ship is a bit biased towards ships named after the country/continent’s own namesake, but it is impressive. It was launched in 1931, but it’s modelled after ships of the line from the late 1700s.
minus-squareVeganCheesecake@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up9·2 months agoFollowing a not wholly dissimilar idea, there is also German training ship Gorch Fock.
minus-squareDamage@feddit.itlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·2 months agoThing is, the Amerigo is huge, you wouldn’t tell from the pictures, it’s got over 2 times the displacement of the Gorch Fock
minus-squareVeganCheesecake@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 months agoHuh, I did not know that. Neat.
Here’s an archive of Wikipedia’s cited source for the story.
I kind of feel like a US ship is a bit biased towards ships named after the country/continent’s own namesake, but it is impressive. It was launched in 1931, but it’s modelled after ships of the line from the late 1700s.
Following a not wholly dissimilar idea, there is also German training ship Gorch Fock.
Thing is, the Amerigo is huge, you wouldn’t tell from the pictures, it’s got over 2 times the displacement of the Gorch Fock
Huh, I did not know that. Neat.