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Re: Steamship Möwe
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lugnet.town
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Mon, 5 Mar 2007 21:09:42 GMT
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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.
So I declare my loyality to a democratic and republican constitution :-)
Andreas
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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 (...) (18 years ago, 6-Mar-07, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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| Andreas: You sure know your ships! I like the attention to detail such as the navigation lights, anchor winch, ventilation shafts, draft lines on the side of the hull, etc. As you may be aware, a ship of this name was one of the more successful of (...) (18 years ago, 5-Mar-07, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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