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Here’s an archive of Wikipedia’s cited source for the story.
I kind of feel like a US ship is a bit biased towards ships named after the country/continent’s own namesake, but it is impressive. It was launched in 1931, but it’s modelled after ships of the line from the late 1700s.
Following a not wholly dissimilar idea, there is also German training ship Gorch Fock.
This pic adds SO much context for size to the OP image, I love it.
USS Independence was right, this IS the most beautiful ship in the world.
Its sister ship was given to the USSR as war reparation and they let it rot for a while, later converted it to carry timber and then it caught fire
What a waste.
It is a gorgeous ship
Yup, that ship could get it anytime.
