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Re: Steamship Möwe
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lugnet.town
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Tue, 6 Mar 2007 03:58:10 GMT
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In lugnet.town, Andreas Weissenburg wrote:
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As you may be aware, a ship of this name was one of the more successful of
the Kaiser’s surface raiders in World War I.
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Uups, had no idea - I thought that is a quite common name for small sailing
boats and harmless things like that.
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In 1914, the German navy converted a banana transport into the armed merchant
raider Mowe; this ship turned out to be very destructive to the British and her
allies. Almost 50 ships were captured, sunk, or mined by the Mowe. The ship’s
configuration is not that different from your model. It had one funnel, four
cargo hatches and two masts with cargo loading booms. There is enough
simularity that I at first thought that your ship might have some hidden 100cm
guns on board!
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So I declare my loyality to a democratic and republican constitution :-)
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Yes, Europe has changed a lot in the last few generations; unlike what a former
US Secretary of Defense had said, it is no longer “old Europe”!
-Jim
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Message is in Reply To:
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| (...) Uups, had no idea - I thought that is a quite common name for small sailing boats and harmless things like that. So I declare my loyality to a democratic and republican constitution :-) Andreas (17 years ago, 5-Mar-07, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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