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The USS Sunfish readies for her first patrol, post-shakedown.
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She's a majestic ship.
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Just the tip.
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boat. subs are called boats
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I’ll take 1 sub, minus the reactor
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Somebody once explained to me the difference between
ship
and
boat
. He said that you can put a boat on a ship, but you can’t put a ship on a boat. I have no idea if that is true, or if he was just a blowhard, which he was.
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Where’s the rest of your sub, Bub?
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I believe that is the unofficial way. Sailors always call subs boat for some reason.
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Easier to remember is ships go on the water, boats go in the water.
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Clearly talking about the orange barge.
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‘Sunfish’ heh
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Exactly.
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Barge? BARGE? That, sir, is an amphibious assault support vessel.
But when it's not being used in that capacity it's just a... barge.
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Winner. “
Richard, tell him what he’s won...”
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She won a $157k R8 roadster? PIR has def gone upscale in its prizes.
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Now, let’s see if she can afford the taxes and insurance on it.
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Right? This happened two years ago, and I read her total tax liability was around $60k. Hello, Craigslist...
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Seawolf class SSN?
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I don’t buy this explanation. See the Blue Marlin for example.
“MV Blue Marlin carrying USS Cole” by U.S. Navy photo by PH2 Leland Comer. - http://www.dcfp.navy.mil/cgi-bin/PhotoG… Licensed under Public Domain via Commons -
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Yeah, but the
Blue Marlin
is in a class by itself.
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Close. Virginia class.
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Still, the USS Cole is clearly a ship and in this case it is on a ship.
/Yo dawg, I hear you like ships
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A little googling turns up numerous answers to the question of ship vs boat, some along the lines of what I said, others who say that the Navy dictates that anything over a certain length at the waterline is a ship, anything shorter is a boat. Submariners are a breed amongst themselves, so they may call their subs “boats” just to be contrary. But I also found this most excellent Winston Churchill quote:
“Enemy submarines are to be called U-boats. The term ‘submarine’ is to be reserved for Allied underwater vessels. U-boats are those dastardly villains who sink our ships, while submarines are those gallant and noble craft which sink theirs.”
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That is a brilliant quote.