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Offline brady

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« on: April 27, 2002, 05:18:15 PM »
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Offline Sleight

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« Reply #1 on: April 28, 2002, 06:40:23 AM »
Hmm...some sort of British destroyer, methinks. I'll poke around through my WWII reference books and see if I can get a class for it...

Offline Nilsen

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« Reply #2 on: April 28, 2002, 07:18:50 AM »
Hi

Hmm... I think it already has a name...

If not, I would name it UGLY

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« Reply #3 on: April 28, 2002, 03:33:11 PM »
I thnik it's some type of British merchant ship with a 'one way'* Hurricane on board.

* you can launch it but not recover

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« Reply #4 on: April 28, 2002, 06:52:27 PM »
It is, HMS Springbank.

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« Reply #5 on: April 29, 2002, 02:58:10 AM »
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Originally posted by brady
It is, HMS Springbank.


So what is it?
DE?

Offline MiloMorai

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« Reply #6 on: April 29, 2002, 09:27:35 AM »
An internet search of 10 seconds using Google turned up this site:

http://www.fleetairarmarchive.net/Ships/SPRINGBANK.html