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Kinja'd!!! "Jagvar" (Jagvar)
05/19/2017 at 10:58 • Filed to: boatlopnik

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Visited Philly last weekend and went aboard the cruiser Olympia. Launched in 1892, Olympia is the oldest steel warship afloat in the world. And I got to play with the deck guns, which date to 1917. Pretty sweet.

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Next to her is the submarine Becuna (SS-319), which was built in 1944 and completed five wartime patrols in the Pacific Ocean. I got to tour her too. Due to the crappy weather, I was the only one aboard, which was surreal. Awesome, but surreal.


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Kinja'd!!! kgman > Jagvar
05/19/2017 at 12:10

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That looks really cool. What is the distinction that makes Olympia the oldest rather than HMS Warrior?


Kinja'd!!! Slant6 > Jagvar
05/19/2017 at 12:54

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I go there almost every time I visit Philly. Great fun to just walk around the old ships. Maritime museum was cool too, I think they build wood boats there.


Kinja'd!!! Jagvar > Slant6
05/19/2017 at 13:56

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Yep, they do!


Kinja'd!!! RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars > Jagvar
05/19/2017 at 21:33

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Halifax (which is an hour from me) has the only surviving Canadian Corvette from the Canadian fleet in World War II - HMCS Sackville. The Corvettes protected the Merchant Marine shipping US and Canadian supplies to Europe through the swarms of U-boats.

Surreal being on her as they were essentially a converted whaling ship design, so small and the sailors had to have balls of Unobtainium to do what they managed to do with the old girl and her siblings! I try to visit her whenever I can!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMCS_Sackville_(K181)

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