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RE: What ship is this? - 6/3/2020 4:36:04 PM

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Jeff - I took 5 years of Latin and cannot for the life of me figure out what your tag line says......

"Sometimes I have the urge to conquer large parts of Europe".

Just wondering how he expects to do this from down under - would be longest-ranged amphibious assault in history.

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RE: What ship is this? - 6/3/2020 7:48:38 PM

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Jeff - I took 5 years of Latin and cannot for the life of me figure out what your tag line says......

"Sometimes I have the urge to conquer large parts of Europe".

Just wondering how he expects to do this from down under - would be longest-ranged amphibious assault in history.

Not amphibious - airborne. Note the part about using scads of furious cupids to do the conquering...

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RE: What ship is this? - 6/3/2020 8:58:19 PM

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I suppose that just naming the ship is to easy. So I also ask for when the picture was taken.

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RE: What ship is this? - 6/3/2020 9:33:59 PM

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I know the ship (Dutch minesweeper HNLMS Abraham Crijnssen) but sure as hell I would not remember the date.
So I thought it would be OK to look it up on the all-mighty internet. Wikipedia says it is April 8, 1942

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RE: What ship is this? - 6/3/2020 9:45:45 PM

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I know the ship (Dutch minesweeper HNLMS Abraham Crijnssen) but sure as hell I would not remember the date.
So I thought it would be OK to look it up on the all-mighty internet. Wikipedia says it is April 8, 1942

You got it right.

I was going to allow any date during the journey to Australia since, I suspect, that the ship looked pretty much the same every day.

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RE: What ship is this? - 6/3/2020 10:20:29 PM

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Different ship, different place, same idea.

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RE: What ship is this? - 6/4/2020 5:39:54 AM

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Swedish cruiser HSwMS G�ta Lejon

edit for spelling

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RE: What ship is this? - 6/4/2020 7:30:49 AM

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Yes. Or HMS G�ta Lejon, as is the Swedish name.

And here is a less known picture of her. (Although I think I have posted both a few years back.)

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RE: What ship is this? - 6/4/2020 9:10:45 AM

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I have seen the photo on a World of Warships forum and remembered it as a Swedish ship, but I admit I had to google the name.

I permit myself a little hijack for another cammo ship:

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RE: What ship is this? - 6/4/2020 11:40:40 AM

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I permit myself a little hijack for another cammo ship:

This is a harder one. Some patrol craft. Mackay camo means around WWI and most certainly American.

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RE: What ship is this? - 6/4/2020 12:39:26 PM

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I permit myself a little hijack for another cammo ship:

This is a harder one. Some patrol craft. Mackay camo means around WWI and most certainly American.

Not sure why you suppose it to be American. The two side-by-side guns forward look like a European WWI design, and the parkas suggest a country that knows how to dress for the cold. I think a Norwegian coast defence patrol vessel.

Did they get that camo pattern from the back of a deck of playing cards?

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RE: What ship is this? - 6/4/2020 4:58:56 PM

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Hint: The photo dates back to WWI but she saw service in WWII as well.

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RE: What ship is this? - 6/4/2020 6:28:42 PM

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translates to
Sometimes I get parts of Europe

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RE: What ship is this? - 6/5/2020 7:17:29 AM

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The foremast is in front of the bridge. It is a yacht, the USS Isabel.

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RE: What ship is this? - 6/5/2020 7:45:33 AM

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Here is anther mystery ship with adjacent turrets forward - should be an easy one:

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RE: What ship is this? - 6/5/2020 2:32:46 PM

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Here is anther mystery ship with adjacent turrets forward - should be an easy one:

CL Adelaide?

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RE: What ship is this? - 6/5/2020 3:54:55 PM

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Yep, before it was rebuilt and lost a turret.

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RE: What ship is this? - 6/5/2020 5:06:24 PM

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The foremast is in front of the bridge. It is a yacht, the USS Isabel.

It is indeed!

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RE: What ship is this? - 6/5/2020 6:44:27 PM

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I cannot explain why, but the Isabel is one of my favorite ships in WITPAE. I've only lost her once.

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RE: What ship is this? - 6/5/2020 9:28:30 PM

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Jeff - I took 5 years of Latin and cannot for the life of me figure out what your tag line says......

"Sometimes I have the urge to conquer large parts of Europe".

Just wondering how he expects to do this from down under - would be longest-ranged amphibious assault in history.

This is the translation I used, Back in the day it would have been a Giant Pub Crawl, now a circuit of historical sites of others who conquered, or tried to conquer Europe.

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