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re: Wreck of SMS Scharnhorst found
Posted on 12/5/19 at 7:33 pm to Kafka
Posted on 12/5/19 at 7:33 pm to Kafka
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This was Gordon lightfoot's first choice, but it just didn't have the ring of Edmund Fitzgerald
Thanks, I just spent 10 minutes trying to say "Wreck of SMS Scharnhorst" in my imitation Gordon Lightfoot voice, harder than you would think.
Posted on 12/5/19 at 7:35 pm to Soup Sammich
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It's a tomb
No it’s a ship.
It landed upright. It's a tomb. Leave it be.
Posted on 12/5/19 at 7:44 pm to Jim Rockford
quote:Warships are built much more robustly, both hull and superstructure.
Interesting that it's roughly contemperaneous with the Titanic wreck, but looks to be in much better shape.
Think a 1912 civilian autobus versus a 1906 military tank (if they had such a thing then).
Posted on 12/5/19 at 8:12 pm to Jim Rockford
I’ve always been fascinated by late 19th & early 20th Century capital ships. It was an era of massive naval design advancements. In a period of just a few decades navies transformed from sail powered wooden ships with rows of relatively small cannon firing from port holes to iron hulled ships, powered by massive coal burning steam turbines, firing massive cannons in turrets. The French in particular really came up with some crazy designs at the dawn of the 20th century.
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