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Subject:	Re: Regina Maersk (First Maersk ship model from 1960)
Newsgroups:	lugnet.general
Date:	Fri, 15 Apr 2005 10:35:12 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Ahui Herrera wrote:

I noticed what I think might be a “U” boat on that page. Say aren’t “U” boats a wartime model?

Gary Istok

Gary that sure is a “u” boat! But you can’t have a fleet of merchant ships without a “u” boat to go hunting them. That is like having cowboys with NO indians or bread without butter! ;)

Maybe its on the same side as the merchant ships. Maybe its a model of the Danish Navy’s U1.

http://www.navalhistory.dk/English/TheShips/U/U1_SpringerenSub(1947-1957).htm

Still military but not as scary as a Nazi submarine.

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		Re: Regina Maersk (First Maersk ship model from 1960)
(...) I think you are correct in that it is a danish submarine. (...) German Submarines were not Nazis per say. Yes everyone in the German Armed Forces during WWII were in the Nazi party per say (not by choice but by default) but the german sailor (...) (20 years ago, 15-Apr-05, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)

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		Re: Regina Maersk (First Maersk ship model from 1960)
---snip--- (...) Gary that sure is a "u" boat! But you can't have a fleet of merchant ships without a "u" boat to go hunting them. That is like having cowboys with NO indians or bread without butter! ;) -Ahui (20 years ago, 14-Apr-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)

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