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Tango0128 Dec 2019 9:33 p.m. PST

"Whether it's due to treaty restrictions, resource limitations, or just bad engineering, the annals of naval history have no shortage of eye-brow raising ship designs…."
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GildasFacit Sponsoring Member of TMP30 Dec 2019 3:20 a.m. PST

One just has a funny name ?

Hardly a serious attempt at finding weird ships, there are lots out there much weirder.

StarCruiser30 Dec 2019 9:10 a.m. PST

Yep – picking on the oddball designs of the late 19th century doesn't make much sense.

That was an era of enormous "experimentation" in naval design. Many new technologies had been developed during the 19th century and no one was entirely sure of the proper way to combine them – or which was actually that useful…

Tango0130 Dec 2019 12:05 p.m. PST

Glup!….


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