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Anonymous Wed 08 Jan 2020 00:05:05 No.1437233 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>1437246 >>1437731 >>1437740 >>1437776 >>1437821 >>1438156 >>1440265 >>1442523 >>1442627 >>1442664

Why don't they build ships like this anymore?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 08 Jan 2020 01:48:07 No.1437244 Report

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Now that your mom's dead and won't be a passenger there's no need to build on such a large scale

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 08 Jan 2020 01:50:30 No.1437246 Report

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>>1437233
>anymore

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 08 Jan 2020 02:32:43 No.1437254 Report

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They found out you liked them and decided to stop.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 09 Jan 2020 09:15:30 No.1437731 Report

Quoted By: >>1437739

>>1437233
Because submerged diesel-electric pivotable turbine systems are much more reliable, consistent and safe than sails and masts

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 09 Jan 2020 09:42:18 No.1437734 Report

Quoted By: >>1438136

China tried once and it was good for nothing piece of shit IIRC

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 09 Jan 2020 11:27:57 No.1437739 Report

Quoted By: >>1437741

Japan is developing hard wingsail / rigid sail for wind-assisted ocean-going propulsion.
>>1437731

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 09 Jan 2020 11:37:53 No.1437740 Report

Quoted By: >>1439275

>>1437233
Ah yes the good ship rothschild

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 09 Jan 2020 11:39:43 No.1437741 Report

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>>1437739
Europe is more on rotor sail

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 09 Jan 2020 15:07:57 No.1437776 Report

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>>1437233
Automation has reduced crew sizes from the hundreds to the tens.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 09 Jan 2020 16:49:57 No.1437799 Report

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Anonymous Thu 09 Jan 2020 17:08:19 No.1437803 Report

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>>1437799
Fuel efficient, elegant & a total failure compared to the bridge that came before it

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 09 Jan 2020 17:41:28 No.1437815 Report

Quoted By: >>1437824

But they do?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 09 Jan 2020 18:05:24 No.1437821 Report

Quoted By: >>1437831 >>1439242

>>1437233
They never built ships like that.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 09 Jan 2020 18:12:31 No.1437824 Report

Quoted By: >>1442638

>>1437815
The prelude is the closest this world will get to Warhammer-esque naval architecture

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 09 Jan 2020 19:07:44 No.1437831 Report

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>>1437821
prove it

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 10 Jan 2020 14:26:15 No.1438136 Report

Quoted By: >>1438138

>>1437734
Are you talking about that floating restaurant because that's obviously not what OP was asking

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Anonymous Fri 10 Jan 2020 14:35:40 No.1438138 Report

Quoted By: >>1438181

>>1438136
Chinese treasure ships.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 10 Jan 2020 16:45:29 No.1438156 Report

Quoted By: >>1440083 >>1440135

>>1437233
Because some retarded Brit king did that and it sank almost instantly.

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Anonymous Fri 10 Jan 2020 18:10:07 No.1438181 Report

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>>1438138
I'm still amazed that madman Zheng He's fleet of cityships didn't get fucked by the weather or war after all those years of sailing them.

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Anonymous Mon 13 Jan 2020 16:41:23 No.1439242 Report

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>>1437821
Zheng He

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Anonymous Mon 13 Jan 2020 18:50:32 No.1439267 Report

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>>1439242
He-Man

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 13 Jan 2020 19:20:56 No.1439275 Report

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>>1437740
HOW DARE YOU

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 14 Jan 2020 07:13:54 No.1439451 Report

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>>1439242
Damn is that Aku’s face on the back I didn’t think he was that good at shapeshifting

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 15 Jan 2020 05:31:05 No.1439903 Report

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>>1439275
Actually, I think it's an appropriate name for that abomination.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 15 Jan 2020 18:39:16 No.1440083 Report

Quoted By: >>1440135

>>1438156
Excuse me the Mary Rose had a 34 year Career. It was the extra weight of a refit that caused her to capsize

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 15 Jan 2020 22:00:08 No.1440135 Report

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>>1438156
>>1440083

He may be thinking of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasa_(ship)

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Anonymous Thu 16 Jan 2020 05:25:53 No.1440260 Report

Quoted By: >>1440315 >>1443554

This is the Santa Catarina de Monte Sinai carrack built in the XV century by the Portuguese Empire

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 16 Jan 2020 05:34:39 No.1440265 Report

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>>1437233
>anymore

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Anonymous Thu 16 Jan 2020 09:37:11 No.1440315 Report

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>>1440260

THICC

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Anonymous Thu 23 Jan 2020 02:42:53 No.1442523 Report

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>>1437233
Why don't they build ships like this any more?

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Anonymous Thu 23 Jan 2020 14:21:23 No.1442625 Report

Quoted By: >>1443378

Why don't they build ships like this anymore?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 23 Jan 2020 14:29:34 No.1442627 Report

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>>1437233
you should ask "Le Lorrain" that question.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 23 Jan 2020 15:28:54 No.1442638 Report

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>>1437824
Don't be pessimistic, we may get sucked into some sort of warp storm in your lifetime.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 23 Jan 2020 17:25:59 No.1442664 Report

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>>1437233
>be swedish
>be minister of defence
>get a message
>"the trees are ready, sir"
>lolwut
Turned out the government planted several islands full of oaks for shipbuilding 200 years ago.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 25 Jan 2020 21:52:59 No.1443378 Report

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>>1442625
The front keeps falling off

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 26 Jan 2020 12:25:30 No.1443554 Report

Quoted By: >>1444707

>>1440260
THICC + why are some canons facing inside?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 28 Jan 2020 23:43:57 No.1444707 Report

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>>1443554
Gotta be prepared to keep any possible mutiny attempt at bay.

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