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Official caption, February 1919: “American troops in Fiume, Hungary [today Rijeka, Croatia], aboard a Yankee ‘Submarine Chaser.’ In the harbor of Fiume, members of [the] 332nd U.S. Infantry, stationed in the city, hold a reunion with some bluejackets from ‘back home.’ American soldiers now occupying Fiume (on the eastern shores of the Adriatic Sea) are those who operated with the Italian army on the Piave River.”
Note the ash cans over the stern and the mix of blue jackets and Ohio Doughboys. U.S. Army photo 111-SC-50709. National Archives Identifier 86707176.
A trio of the Navy’s 110-foot subchasers, USS SC-124, SC-125, and SC-127, called at Fiume several times between late November 1918 and early March 1919. The strategic port, once home to the Austrian Navy Academy and a large part of the Kaiser’s fleet, was claimed by several in the post-war disintegration that followed the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
The chasers, which had originally been dispatched to serve on the Otranto barrage, would have a hectic five months in the Adriatic during the occupation and often had to stand up to much larger “allies.”
“Three Yankee Submarine Chasers docked in harbor of Fiume, Hungary attract the attention of spectators on the waterfront” SC-127 is shown moored between SC-124 and SC-125. Behind the three sub-chasers are two Italian Destroyers, Giuseppe Siritori (SR) and Vicenzo Orsini (OR). In the background are a battleship of the Emanuele Filiberto class (1897) and an armored cruiser of the San Giorgio Class (1908). Army 111-SC-50714. National Archives 86707186
A North Carolina unit is the first in the National Guard to field test the new SIG Sauer-made XM7 and the XM250, which is replacing the M4/M4A1 carbine and M249 Squad Automatic Weapon, respectively.
The 30th Armored Brigade Combat Team, a National Guard outfit that carries the “Old Hickory” lineage of the World War I & II era infantry division of the same number, earlier this month conducted a qualification table range session with the Army’s Next Generation Squad Weapon platforms at Fort Liberty (formerly Fort Bragg), North Carolina.
The unit is the first in the Guard to receive the XM7 and XM250, just months after the first regular Army unit, the famed 101st Airborne Division, began receiving their NGSWs.
A soldier of the 30th ABCT, a North Carolina Army National Guard unit, with the XM7 on the range at Fort Liberty earlier this month. (Photo: Cpl. Nigel Hatcher/U.S. Army)
This comes as ADM Daryl Caudle, commander of the U.S. Fleet Forces Command, toured SIG Sauer’s new Academy and SIG Experience Center in Newington, New Hampshire, earlier this month. Images released by the Pentagon show Caudle and staff inspecting the state-of-the-art facility where over 480,000 M17 and M18 handguns have been produced for the military thus far.
And include Caudle handling an NSGW.
240610-N-XX999-1001 NEWINGTON, N.H. (June 10, 2024) Adm. Daryl Caudle, commander, U.S. Fleet Forces Command, examines a firearm during a leadership meeting and tour at SIG SAUER Academy and Experience Center (SEC) in Newington, New Hampshire, June 10.
Of note, the Marines have been interested in the platform going back to 2020.
As detailed in an On-the-Record Press Briefing by Deputy Pentagon Press Secretary Sabrina Singh Holds, the current count of Iranian-backed Houthi attacks in the Red Sea area since 19 November stands at over 190 incidents. Two of the latest were very successful.
Last week, the Yemen-based Houthis struck two cargo ships: the bulk carrier M/V Tutor (82,357 DWT), which is Liberian flagged, Greek-owned, and Filipino-operated as well as the M/V Verbena (20,518 DWT), which is Palauan flagged, Ukrainian-owned and Polish operated.
The June 12 attack on the Tutor resulted in severe flooding and damage to the engine room.
The guided-missile cruiser USS Philippine Sea (CG-58) responded to distress calls from the Tutor. Aircraft from the cruiser and partner forces helped evacuate 21 of 22 personnel from the vessel. This operation took place in the Red Sea and within range of Houthi weapons, making it a risky and complex operation, she said.
Iranian, Russian, and Chinese naval vessels were among the ships within response distance that did nothing to assist the Tutor, Singh noted.
Tutor was hit by “an unknown airborne projectile” after being hit in the stern by a drone boat, with one of her Filipino crew left missing and later confirmed deceased.
She was carrying an armed guard detachment which apparently shrugged off the drone boat– a converted local fishing craft– until it was too late.
An update from the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) office on Tuesday said that military authorities reported seeing debris and oil in the last known location of the Tutor and then sunk in position 14’19’N 041’14’E.
This is the second incident resulting in the death of mariners in the conflict, following the deaths of three crew members on the Barbados-flagged bulk carrier M/V True Confidence (29,104 GT), struck by a Houthi anti-ship missile in the Gulf of Aden in early March while carrying steel products and trucks from China to Jordan.
It is also now the second confirmed sinking in the conflict, following the Belize-flagged bulk carrier MV Rubymar (19,420 GT) which, hit by a Houthi anti-ship ballistic missile on 18 February 2024, was abandoned and subsequently sank in foul weather 12 days later. All 24 crew members of Rubymar were rescued and landed at Djibouti.
Meanwhile, Verbena, carrying cargo from Songkhla (Thailand) to Venice, was reportedly hit by two missiles, causing fires and extensive damage, which left one civilian mariner severely injured and later airlifted for medical treatment. The crew later abandoned the ship due to the inability to contain the fires.
Central Command in the past 72 hours since then has advised they have destroyed: two Houthi uncrewed surface vessels (USV) in the Red Sea, eight Houthi uncrewed aerial systems (UAS) in a Houthi-controlled area of Yemen, as well as four Houthi radars and one uncrewed surface vessel (USV) in Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen.
Shipping and mariner advocacy groups are calling for more action. Expect an increase in diversions around the Cape of Good Hope.
80 years ago today, on D+ 14 (20 June 1944) while in the recently liberated French town of Bretteville-Orgueilleuse, the Queen’s Own Rifles of Canada had a war correspondent stop by and take a series of photos that capture the moment in time.
STEN-armed Rifleman R.G. Bodie, Queen’s Own Rifles of Canada, on guard in the front line, Bretteville-Orgueilleuse, France, 20 June 1944.
Lieutenant E.M. Peto (left), 16th Field Company, Royal Canadian Engineers (R.C.E.), with Company Sergeant-Major Charlie Martin and Rifleman N.E. Lindenas, both of “A” Company, Queen’s Own Rifles of Canada, planning where to lay a minefield, Bretteville-Orgueilleuse, France, 20 June 1944.
Rifleman R.A. Marshall, Queen’s Own Rifles of Canada, pointing out a hole in his helmet made by a German sniper’s bullet on D-Day. Bretteville-Orgueilleuse, France, 20 June 1944.
Rfn B. Brueyere, Rfn D.J Briere, Rfn W.J. Simpson, and Rfn H.G.Payne interrogating a local
Cpl W. Lennox watching his arcs in Bretteville-Orgueilleuse with the courtesy of a recently acquired second-hand German MG42.
As noted by The Queen’s Own Rifles of Canada Regimental Museum and Archive, the war diary for 20 June included:
0530 Two bombs are dropped in D coy MR91957180 area and a good bit of concussion is felt however luckily there are no casualties.
0800 3 Cdn Inf Div Sitrep Rep
Patrol report for night of 19/20 Jun 44 Proposed Patrols for night 20/21 Jun 44 Daily Int Summary QOR of C Int Summ #10 18 Jun 44 Trace of enemy dispositions as soon from C coy
1000 It appears at first sight as though we are being invaded by the Free French Army but it soon develops that they are the French Cmdrs of the district and are putting the regular Gendarmes back into local power. There will be five of them in the town and they will control the local population but will report to us each day for any instructions. We are also giving them transportation to enable them to bring flour into the district as they only have a supply enough to last 24 hours.
1115 Several high officers of the 15 Scottish Div arrive to recce the ground for their attack through us. Put all them together with the French Officials still around it looks like an Army HQ.
Formed on 26 April 1860– predating the Confederation of Canada by seven years– as the Second Battalion Volunteer Militia Rifles, The Queen’s Own Rifles of Canada (a title it earned in 1882) is the country’s oldest continuously serving infantry regiment, a lineage acquired after 1953 when it was amalgamated with the 1st and Canadian Rifle Battalions to form the current unit. After serving in the Fienan Wars, the North-West Rebellion, fighting the Boer, and earning two dozen battle honors on the Western Front against the Kaiser, the Queen’s Own Rifles got into WWII combat at Normandy.
The QOR, part of the 8th Infantry Brigade, 3rd Canadian Infantry Division, hit Juno Beach at Bernieres-sur-mer at 0812 on D-Day, with A Company on the right and B Company on the left in the first wave while C and D companies along with the Battalion Headquarters coming in just eight minutes later, losing 61 men that morning.
In all, they would remain in combat all through France and across Northeast Europe until VE Day, earning 10 more battle honors and paying for them with the last full measure of 463 of the Queen’s Own killed in action and buried in Europe. Meanwhile “almost 900 were wounded, many two or three times. Sixty more QOR personnel were killed serving with other units in Hong Kong, Italy, and Northwest Europe.”
Post-WWII, they saw service in Korea, NATO duty in Germany, UN duty in Cyprus, and more limited deployments to Cambodia, Somalia, Sierra Leone, Bosnia, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Darfur, and Sudan.
Today, the Queens Own Rifles are garrisoned in Moss Park Armoury, Toronto, as part of the 32 Bde Group.
The regiment’s motto is In Pace Paratus (In peace prepared).
80 years ago today. Original Kodachrome color Image of Lt-General Henry Duncan Graham Crerar, commander of the First Canadian Army, seen on the open bridge aboard the Canadian V-class destroyer HMCS Algonquin (R17), while part of the Normandy Operation Neptune fleet, 18 June 1944.
Via Library and Archives Canada
Built 1942-43 as HMS Valentine (R17) and transferred to the Royal Canadian Navy on completion, Algonquin opened up with her 4.7-inch QF guns on German targets off Juno Beach at 0645 on D-Day and spent the next 48 hours providing very active NGFS for the British and Canadian troops until their advance inland had outstripped her range.
A 4.7-inch (12 cm) gun crew of the destroyer HMCS Algonquin piling shell cases and sponging out the gun after bombarding German shore defenses in the Normandy beachhead. LAC 4950888
Bofors and gunner and white ensign on HMCS Algonquin. LAC 4950797
Putting back in at Portsmouth on 9 June, she carried VADM Percy W. Nelles, RCN, and his staff to Normandy the next day and would return to carry Gen. Crerar to France as shown above.
Graduating from the Royal Military College in 1909, Crear served with distinction in the artillery during the Great War, witnessing the hell of Ypres, Neuve Chapelle, and Vimy Ridge, and was ready to finish up a 30-year career as colonel commandant of the Royal Military College of Canada when Hitler marched into Poland. He had led the 2nd Canadian Division and I Canadian Corps in Italy before Normandy.
Going on to see much Arctic service in the rest of the war, including sinking a trio of German subchasers off Norway, Algonquin would be modernized to a Type 15 frigate (pennant DDE 224) in 1953 and continue to serve into the 1970s when she was scrapped, her name passed on to the lead ship of a new class of destroyers for the RCN.
Gen. HDG Crerar, CH, CB, DSO, CD, PC, would retire from the Army in 1946 and go on to the diplomatic service. He passed in 1965, age 79.
Those who know Walther are well aware that the company has long produced exhibition and presentation-grade pistols for special occasions and to meet customer requests. Just drink these in.
I’m a sucker for eye-catching fighter planes and two have recently popped up.
From Denmark, in honor of the 50th anniversary of the Fighting Falcon in Danish service, the Kongelige Danske Flyvevåben have applied a Dannebrogsflyet pattern to F-16AM No. E-006, designed by aviation artist Mads Bangsø.
The Danes bought 77 F-16A/B aircraft through the 1970s and 80s, upgrading almost 50 to F-16AM/BM Block 15 MLU standard, and has been steadily shedding the type, replacing them with F-35s. At least 19 have gone to Ukraine while another 24 have been bought by Argentina, no doubt to the joy of the British.
Sharkmouthed Sunliner
Meanwhile, the NAS Oceana-based Sunliners of Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 81 have an F-18E CAW 1 CAG bird (300) in a full-color livery, complete with a snaggle puss set of jaws. She will no doubt be striking on Truman’s cat when the carrier deploys this summer.
Ulm is a beautiful city by any standard and has been home to Carl Walther GmbH since 1945
The current Walther factory, in Lehrer Feld along the autobahn just outside of the Danube bastion city of Ulm, contains nearly 130,000 square feet of floor space and opened in 2006. It is the birthplace of such innovative firearms as the PPQ and its all-steel sisters, the Q5 and Q4 Steel Frame, and today’s PDP series while continuing the company’s Olympic sports heritage with designs such as LG 400, LP 500, and KK 500, along with being the home of legacy designs such as the PPK.
I was lucky enough to be invited inside for a behind-the-scenes tour of the facility.
Warship Wednesday, June 12, 2024: Good ol’ Walrus Skull
This image, as are most in this post, via the Danish Nationalmuseet system, call no. THM-3787
Above we see the humble little inspektionsskibet (inspection ship) Ingolf of the Royal Danish Navy at anchor in Umanak (Uummannaq), Greenland in the summer of 1934, some 90 years ago.
She was a brawler for her type and task, and if you look closely at the front of her wheelhouse, you just may see her unofficial ship’s mascot, a walrus skull.
Meet Ingolf
Ingolf was ordered in 1932 with inspiration drawn from the large inspection ship Hvidbjornen (1,050 t, 196 feet oal, 2x87mm, 1 aircraft, 14 knots, circa 1928).
Hvidbjørnen with Heinkel HM 8 seaplane abord. Ingolf would be about 20 feet longer, a little faster, and with a more powerful battery of 4.7-inch guns. THM-18978
You can see the resemblance in Ingolf. THM-18464
Our subject’s name comes from the Old Norse name Ingólfr, meaning the wolf of the king Yngvi. The Dane had previously used the name several times, most recently for an iron-hulled sail-rigged steam schooner cruiser (skonnert-krydseren) that, commissioned in the 1870s, had spent the last two decades of her life as a training ship and polar exploration/survey vessel before retiring in 1926.
The old Krydseren Ingolf
It was (and is) a popular boy’s name, including for use in the Danish royal family.
A young Prince Ingolf of Denmark, shown with Danish Guards. Currently titled as Count Ingolf of Rosenborg, he is a grandson of Danish King Christian X and twice great-grandson (through both his mother and father’s lines) of King Frederik VIII of Denmark.
Constructed in Copenhagen at Orlogsværftet, the Danish naval shipyard, Ingolf was officially a fishery protection vessel intended for service off Greenland, Iceland (a Danish dependency until WWII) and the Faeroes Islands. However, she was a decent little gunboat by any measure.
With some 1,180 tons standard displacement, she ran 213 feet overall with a tubby (roughly 6:1 ratio) 35-foot beam and the capability of floating in just 16 feet of water. Powered by two Thornycroft boilers driving a VTE engine, she could make 16.5 knots on a single screw.
Her main battery consisted of a pair of 4.7-inch P.K. L45 M.32 mounts in shielded turrets fore and aft, a single 57mm L40 M.1885 gun, two 20mm/56 Madsen Rek. K. AAA guns, and two 8mm Madsen light machine guns.
Ingolf in Greenland in the summer of 1936, one of her 4.7-inch mounts being cleaned. Note the light shield of the mount and the fatigue coveralls of her crew, along with the wooden deck. THM-21466
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The 57mm gun was typically used for saluting and “shots across the bow,” saving the 4.7-inchers for “war use.” THM-19102
The same model 57mm gun, dating back to the 1880s, was used by the Icelandic Coast Guard on their cutters until the early 2000s. THM-18893
Note the Madsen LMG in an AAA mount. THM-19341
The crew was just 66 men, of which a light platoon-sized landing/survey party could be spared for work ashore in her remote patrol area. The ship carried several whaleboats and survey ships for the task.
Amazing for her size, she was designed from the outset to carry an armed floatplane, which would be craned off and on for operations. More on this later.
Going well beyond Hvidbjornen, when compared to the five other Danish G-I-F fisheries protection/survey flotilla vessels that routinely sailed from Denmark to patrol those waters– Hejmdal (705 t, 175 feet oal, 2x75mm, 13 knot, circa 1935), Beskytteren (389 t, 143 feet oal, 1x57mm, 2x37mm, 11.8 knots, circa 1900), Hejmdal (817 t, 174 feet oal, 2x75mm, 12 kts, circa 1935), Islands Falk (730 t, 183 feet oal, 2x75mm, 2x47mm, 13 knots, circa 1907) and Freja (322 t, 124 feet oal, 2x75mm, 10 knots, circa 1938)– Ingolf was by far the largest, fastest, and strongest of the lot.
It was also intended to use her as a kadetskib, or school ship for naval cadets, a role her old schooner cruiser namesake had often filled.
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Commissioned on 23 April 1934, he had an almost idyllic life, at least until 1939.
Ingolf seen aft across to port lying at the quay at the Royal Yacht Club, Brussels 1934. THM-3731
Ingolf in the North Atlantic, summer 1936. The little round bottom boat, with her low speed and 6:1 length-to-beam ratio, must have been a zesty ride in high seas. THM-21440
The inspection ship Ingolf fires salutes in this very artistic image. THM-3788
The inspection ship Ingolf is docked in Nykøbing.
Note the walrus skull mounted to the front of her wheelhouse. FHM-165451
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It remained a fixture of her career.
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Inspektionskibet Ingolf and Maagen at Godthaab. Maagen (110 t, 71 feet oal, sail/diesel 8 knots, 1x37mm gun) was one of several small twin-masted light draft vessels classified invariably as an inspection cutter (inspektionskutter) or orlogskutter (naval cutter) that were permanently deployed to Greenland, Iceland, and the Faeroes used for inspection, coastal survey, and civil administration, typically with a single officer, a CPO, and 6-8 enlisted, often locals. They would steam with the larger Inspektionskibet whenever in the area and perform such yeoman tasks as towing targets during gunnery exercises.
Aircraft
Throughout her service, Ingolf and her smaller OPV companion, Hvidbjornen, would carry two types of light scout or torpedoflyet (torpedo-carrying) aircraft.
The first of these was the Heinkel H.E.8, of which the Danish Marinens Flyvevæsen bought (8) or built from kits (16) two dozen between 1928 and 1938. Classed by the Versailles-restricted Heinkel as two-seat “mail planes” they were easily modified to carry two Madsen light machine guns (one fixed forward-firing, one flexible) and eight hardpoints for small 28-pound bombs.
Heinkel seaplane HM 87 being taken on board in Ingolf, Godthåb summer of 1936. Capable of 130 knots, they had an 800nm range. THM-21432
Heinkel HM 87 being craned. Note the kayak in the background. THM-19052
Heinkel HM 87 is taken on board Ingolf in Godthaab ship harbor, August 1936, after photo flights for the Royal Danish Navy’s Chart Archive. To the stern of the gunboat is the 3,800-ton Danish gunnery training cruiser, Niels Juel, with twin 5.9-inch mounts forward. THM-32196
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The second, and by far more formidable, floatplane used by the Danes from our subject was the Hawker Dantorp H.B. III, a type made specifically for the Danish Navy in 1933. Powered by an 850 hp Armstrong Siddeley Leopard IIIA air-cooled 14-cylinder twin-row radial engine– the most powerful radial engine in the world at the time– the three-place scout bomber carried a forward firing Vickers machine gun, a flexible Lewis gun for the gunner/radio operator, and up to 1,500 pounds of bombs or a single torpedo.
Dantorp torpedo plane No. 202 during practice on Isefjorden summer 1936. Note her steelfish centerline. They could reportedly stay aloft for an eight-hour patrol, albeit at 100~ knots. THM-21438
Torpedo plane No. 202 of the Dantorp type on board Ingolf. Talk about a tight squeeze! Note the Dannebrog national flash on the tail of the plane. THM-38091
The boom for launching and retrieving the torpedo plane ran off the mainmast. Just two Dantorps were ordered by the Danish Navy, No. 201 and No. 202. THM-3212
War!
Under the command of CDR Christian Vilhelm Evers (Søofficerskolen 1913) WWII began with Ingolf at the disposal of the Danish naval academy and would remain tasked with training cadets, along with her near sister, Hvidbjørnen.
Ingolf shown during WWII, note the Dannebrog painted on her side, a standard practice that Danish ships used in both world wars, used to try at armed neutrality. THM-9122
Same as above, THM-9123. Note she still has her walrus skull in this shot.
Ingolf, like much of the Danish fleet, was unable to get off a shot before the government capitulated.
Of course, that didn’t stop extensive Free Danish forces from being formed overseas, most of the Danish merchant marine to sail for the Allies– over 5,000 Danish merchant sailors manned over 800,000 tons of shipping for the Allies, many never to be seen again– and the training ship Danmark, in the U.S. in 1940, to train over 5,000 Americans for while operating for the USCG. Two small Danish Navy fisheries patrol boats, Maagen and Ternen, were in Greenland and would serve the Allies.
While sidelined and fundamentally interned in their own country by the occupying German forces, Ingolf and Hvidbjørnen were one of the few vessels allowed to cruise inside Denmark’s territorial waters as they were still allowed to train cadets. Of course, this was done with empty magazines and near-empty bunkers.
Thus, they were afloat in the Storebælt (Great Belt)– strait between the islands of Zealand and Funen on 29 August 1943 when the Danish Admiralty flashed orders at 0408 to scuttle or make for Sweden. The Germans had begun their Operation Safari to disarm and disband the remnants of the Danish military. However, before they could reach Swedish waters, they were intercepted by the German minesweeper M 413 and torpedo boat T 18.
CDR Evers and his crew tried to sink Ingolf by opening the sea valves and wreck her equipment but were stopped before the job was complete by the Germans who, according to reports, boarded and took hostages from among the cadets.
Meanwhile, Hvidbjørnen was more successful and was wrecked.
The last call on the inspection ship Hvidbjørnen before it was sunk in Storebælt off Korsør on 29 August 1943. The sinking took place in connection with the state of emergency on 29 August, after a German force had boarded the ship. FHM-167260
Limping to nearby Korsor, the Danish crews were interned and the proud Ingolf seized.
Operation Safari cost the Danish Navy six men were killed and 11 injured, while 258 officers and 2,961 ratings were taken into custody.
Ice distribution in Tårnborglejeren near Korsør, where the crews from the inspection ships Hvidbjørnen and Ingolf were interned after the Germans declared a state of emergency on 29 August 1943. FHM-174949
Danish sailors interned in KB Hallen. The dormitory is arranged on an indoor tennis court. Note the triple-decker bunks. FHM-170704
When the internment sites were closed in October 1943 the enlisted men were paroled although some officers remained in custody or were deported to Germany. Most of those let go subsequently took to a range of resistance activities.
The Germans renamed Ingolf as Sleipnir, then she was used as a flottentender from January 1943 and later bombed in the last months of the war during Allied air raids in Kiel. Leaking, she was towed out to Heikendorf on the east side of the Kieler Fjord, where she sank.
Ingolf as a wreck among wrecks in Kielshavn, May 1945. FHM-165480
She was later scrapped post-war.
Epilogue
CDR Evers, who commanded Ingolf from 1934-36 and 1939-43, retired from the Navy in August 1945, sat on the board of several Danish utility companies into the 1960s, and passed in 1967, aged 80. He was buried with full military honors at Holsteinborg cemetery
Post-war, the Royal Danish Navy would recycle the name for a second Inspektionsskibet Ingolfs (F350) which was in commission from 1962 to 1991. A 1,700-ton Hvidbjørnen class OPV armed with depth charges and a 76mm cannon, the little 239-foot vessel had both a hangar and flight deck for, first, a French Alouette III, and later a British Westland Lynx helicopter.
Inspektionsskibene af Hvidbjørn-Klassen OPV Ingolf (F350) with Sea Lynx S.181 aloft
Notably, members of the old crew from the circa 1934 Inspektionsskibet Ingolfs visited the new ship with the same moniker in April 1984, posing with the vessel’s embarked Lynx militærhelikopter, S.181.
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Ships are more than steel and wood And heart of burning coal, For those who sail upon them know That some ships have a soul.
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