"user314" (user314)
02/13/2020 at 13:57 • Filed to: boatlopnik, Shipping but not that kind of shipping, #SHIPLOPNIK, u.s. navy, SUBMARINELOPNIK, aircraft carriers, WWi, cold war, Theme Day, Lincoln, Abraham Lincoln
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"user314" (user314)
02/13/2020 at 13:57 • Filed to: boatlopnik, Shipping but not that kind of shipping, #SHIPLOPNIK, u.s. navy, SUBMARINELOPNIK, aircraft carriers, WWi, cold war, Theme Day, Lincoln, Abraham Lincoln | 2
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!!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! , formerly a passenger liner operated by HAPA G, she was seized in New York harbor in 1917 and converted to a troopship, making 5 crossings to France before being sunk by U-90 in 191 8.
!!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! , USS Abraham Lincoln , a George Washington -class ballistic missile submarine
!!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! , USS Abraham Lincoln , a Nimitz -class aircraft carrier
ranwhenparked
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02/13/2020 at 14:19 |
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Fun fact - HAPAG used to give a lot of their ships patriotic American names, because of a widespread superstition among central and eastern European immigrants that they would be treated better at Ellis Island if they arrived on an American sounding ship.
It did mean that we didn’t really have to rename many of the ones we seized as war reparations, though we did change the SS Amerika to SS America. And “Vaterland” to “ Leviathan", but thats a different case.
Chariotoflove
> user314
02/13/2020 at 14:20 |
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Interesting, I just read that apparently, the Abraham Lincoln was used to shoot flight deck sequences for the new Top Gun flick.