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re: Why does the Mexican Navy use ships with masts and sails?
Posted on 5/18/25 at 7:38 am to LaMigra
Posted on 5/18/25 at 7:38 am to LaMigra
quote:
It’s a training ship that the navy uses as a goodwill ship!
It amazes me that people can’t come to this conclusion on their own. This board is downright retarded most of the time.
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Posted on 5/18/25 at 7:54 am to Crappieman
Quite few navies keep a tall ship sailing.Most are used for cadets to sail and it is or used to be very competitive to get that posting.
Sailing is actually pretty effing cool to do.
Sailing is actually pretty effing cool to do.
Posted on 5/18/25 at 7:58 am to Crappieman
DEI captain
Posted on 5/18/25 at 8:07 am to Crappieman
They have gone green. Seems they are worried about climate change. It gets really hot down there.
Posted on 5/18/25 at 8:10 am to Crappieman
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If tweet fails to load, click here. Where was the alarm? No one did a damn thing, it appears.
This post was edited on 5/18/25 at 8:12 am
Posted on 5/18/25 at 8:11 am to HeadCall
quote:
It amazes me that people can’t come to this conclusion on their own. This board is downright retarded most of the time.
It is amazing the number of humorless assholes with dishrag personalities that this board attracts.
Posted on 5/18/25 at 8:14 am to Rekrul
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Yet here you are on a political forum being pissy about something that does not matter, period.
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No one gives a shite about your time, I promise.
thank you for expressing what the rest of us feel -
Posted on 5/18/25 at 8:17 am to Crappieman
See uss constitution
Posted on 5/18/25 at 8:40 am to Crappieman
better question = why does any Naval vessel accelerate backwards into a bridge?
Seems like I saw it pushing water in its path rather than drifting as if out out power.
Seems like I saw it pushing water in its path rather than drifting as if out out power.
Posted on 5/18/25 at 8:48 am to Crappieman
The nicer ships are on a timeshare with the cartels. It wasn't the government's weekend.
Posted on 5/18/25 at 8:50 am to RohanGonzales
quote:
It is amazing the number of humorless assholes with dishrag personalities that this board attracts.
Nobody with a decent sense of humor found the OP to be funny.
Posted on 5/18/25 at 8:51 am to Crappieman
Why does a Mexican Navy ship train in NY??
Posted on 5/18/25 at 8:52 am to SixthAndBarone
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Great political post by the way, so much politics here.
Always interesting to see someone so openly salty about a benign post.
Are you Mexican?
Posted on 5/18/25 at 8:54 am to FLTech
quote:
Why does a Mexican Navy ship train in NY??
It doesn’t.
Posted on 5/18/25 at 9:01 am to ChineseBandit58
quote:
better question = why does any Naval vessel accelerate backwards into a bridge?
Seems like I saw it pushing water in its path rather than drifting as if out out power.
Mechanical failure when leaving pier.
Posted on 5/18/25 at 10:24 am to Crappieman
For the same reason we do - to teach sailors how to sail.
Trivia:
The Cuauhtemoc built to a design similar to the 1930 designs of the German firm Blohm & Voss, Horst Wessel.
Horst Wessel began life as Schiff ("ship") 508 at Blohm & Voss in Hamburg, Germany in 1936. The next ship, 509, would be the Bismark.
The name was given in tribute to SA leader Horst Wessel, who had been accorded martyr status by the Nazi Party.
Horst Wessel was decommissioned in 1939 with the onset of World War II, but served as a docked training ship in Stralsund for the marine branch of the Hitler Youth until her recommissioning as an active Navy sail training vessel in 1942.
In April 1945, after the last German cadet class had departed, Horst Wessel departed Rügen with a group of German refugees on board. She sailed to Flensburg where Kapitänleutnant Barthold Schnibbe surrendered to the British
At the end of World War II, the four German sailing vessels then extant were distributed to various nations as war reparations. Horst Wessel was won by the United States in a drawing of lots.
The ship's sails, masts, and other equipment were stripped from the Russian sister ship according to Command Master Chief William Bodine, Jr. who was the senior enlisted man on the voyage and in charge of rigging the ship for sail.
On 15 May 1946, she was commissioned by CDR Gordon McGowan into the United States Coast Guard as the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Eagle.
In June 1946, a U.S. Coast Guard crew sailed her from Bremerhaven to Orangeburg, New York—through a hurricane—assisted by Kapitänleutnant Schnibbe and many of his crew who were still aboard.
USCGC Eagle (WIX-327), formerly Horst Wessel and also known as Barque Eagle, is a 295-foot (90 m) barque used as a training cutter for future officers of the United States Coast Guard. She is one of only two active commissioned sailing vessels in the United States military today, along with USS Constitution which is ported in Boston Harbor.
Crew aloft furling sail:
Trivia:
The Cuauhtemoc built to a design similar to the 1930 designs of the German firm Blohm & Voss, Horst Wessel.
Horst Wessel began life as Schiff ("ship") 508 at Blohm & Voss in Hamburg, Germany in 1936. The next ship, 509, would be the Bismark.
The name was given in tribute to SA leader Horst Wessel, who had been accorded martyr status by the Nazi Party.
Horst Wessel was decommissioned in 1939 with the onset of World War II, but served as a docked training ship in Stralsund for the marine branch of the Hitler Youth until her recommissioning as an active Navy sail training vessel in 1942.
In April 1945, after the last German cadet class had departed, Horst Wessel departed Rügen with a group of German refugees on board. She sailed to Flensburg where Kapitänleutnant Barthold Schnibbe surrendered to the British
At the end of World War II, the four German sailing vessels then extant were distributed to various nations as war reparations. Horst Wessel was won by the United States in a drawing of lots.
The ship's sails, masts, and other equipment were stripped from the Russian sister ship according to Command Master Chief William Bodine, Jr. who was the senior enlisted man on the voyage and in charge of rigging the ship for sail.
On 15 May 1946, she was commissioned by CDR Gordon McGowan into the United States Coast Guard as the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Eagle.
In June 1946, a U.S. Coast Guard crew sailed her from Bremerhaven to Orangeburg, New York—through a hurricane—assisted by Kapitänleutnant Schnibbe and many of his crew who were still aboard.
USCGC Eagle (WIX-327), formerly Horst Wessel and also known as Barque Eagle, is a 295-foot (90 m) barque used as a training cutter for future officers of the United States Coast Guard. She is one of only two active commissioned sailing vessels in the United States military today, along with USS Constitution which is ported in Boston Harbor.
Crew aloft furling sail:
Posted on 5/18/25 at 10:26 am to Crappieman
Green Navy
Posted on 5/18/25 at 10:34 am to Crappieman
There's something beautiful about seeing large sailing vessels at sea. Shame about the accident. RIP to those sailors doing their duty.
Posted on 5/18/25 at 10:35 am to Crappieman
Need the sail rigging to hang pinatas.
Posted on 5/18/25 at 1:13 pm to Crappieman
Pretty sure it was a training ship. We have several tall ships used for training here in the States.
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