st george
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Available as a model if anyone wants. http://battleship-models.com/en/french-navy/208-battleship-hoche.html
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Could be the USS Eldridge
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Not seeing any picture?
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I think we have to wait for Slog to confirm you're right first Jan
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Well done Jan I think you got the name.
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Martians? Cyclops? I'm going back to reading Homer's Odyssey.
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I'd say Jason is right with the Aurora.
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Looks like it's been in a collision. should help the search.
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Choice of three, so I'll take a stab at the Bonn then Jan!
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Looks like one of there training craft. Have to go to work now though.
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Swedish perhaps?
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Russian then?
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I'll give it to Eamonn, It is the Tobasco. Your turn.
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Next clue is she operated out of Veracruz.
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OK some clues needed I think. She was built in 1980 in Japan at the Hitachi shipyard.
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Thanks Dave for using that ship. Funny enough today was our Anniversary. 13 years ago today I stood on the bridge of the Indie and Married my soul mate. Here's one for now.
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It's the ship I got married on. Came to a sad end. SS Independence.
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1782 - French fleet occupies St. Christopher. 1994 - Ship disaster near Ranong Thailand, kills 200.
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1907 – Passenger ship Larchmont sinks by Block Island, estimated 150 died. 1909 – New Zealand's worst maritime disaster of the 20th century happens when the SS Penguin, an inter-island ferry, sinks and explodes at the entrance to Wellington Harbour. 1946 – Operation Deadlight ends after scuttling 121 of 154 captured U-boats.
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1819 - Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles founds freeport harbor Singapore. 1832 - US ship destroys Sumatran village in retaliation for piracy. 1836 - HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin reach Diemen's Land (Tasmania). 1861 - British Vice-Admiral Robert Fitzroy issues first storm warnings for ships. 1862 - American Civil Was; naval engagement on Tennessee River-USS Conestago vs CSS Appleton Belle. 1922 - US, UK, France, Italy & Japan sign Washington naval arms limitation. 1933 - Highest recorded sea wave (not tsunami), 112 feet, in Pacific hurricane.
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1697 - 3 VOC-ships anchor at Dirk-Hartogeiland, Australia. 1810 - Royal Navy seizes Guadeloupe. 1959 - Keel laying of USS Enterprise, first nuclear powered aircraft carrier, Newport News, VA. 1999 - MV New Carissa runs aground near Coos Bay, Oregon.
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You got her Dave. HMS 'Terrible' was launched at Deptford in February 1845. She was a large 19-gun paddle-frigate, and served during the Crimean War.
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1917 - US liner Housatonic sunk by German sub & diplomatic relations severed.
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Here's the next from me. Good Luck.
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Dave, I see you're up to your old tricks again. It's USS Fulton(AS-1) launched on 6 June 1914. The lead ship of her class of submarine tenders. She was later converted into a gunboat and redesignated (PG-49).
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