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Post subject: Re: Today's picture from the Web!Posted: June 19th, 2011, 11:42 pm
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Am I the only one who's seeing a striking resemblance between these boats and the Danish Daphne class?
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Post subject: Re: Today's picture from the Web!Posted: June 19th, 2011, 11:51 pm
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Yeah, move the super structure back a bit and we might have a doppelganger! ;)

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Post subject: Re: Today's picture from the Web!Posted: June 20th, 2011, 7:26 pm
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Thiel wrote:
Am I the only one who's seeing a striking resemblance between these boats and the Danish Daphne class?
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Maybe because it is the Daphne class?

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Post subject: Re: Today's picture from the Web!Posted: June 20th, 2011, 9:47 pm
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Am I the only one who's seeing a striking resemblance between these boats and the Danish Daphne class?
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Maybe because it is the Daphne class?
I mean between the the Attack class and the Daphne class. The picture's there so people won't have to go look her up for themselves.

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Post subject: Re: Today's picture from the Web!Posted: June 27th, 2011, 7:50 pm
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Post subject: Re: Today's picture from the Web!Posted: June 27th, 2011, 9:04 pm
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Woah, that sea looks menacing, how leaden can it be?

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Post subject: Re: Today's picture from the Web!Posted: June 27th, 2011, 9:17 pm
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I should add that she is an icebreaker, and they're known to be a little more anxious in the open sea than a regular ship.

It's because the hull shape. she can get a little wave to feel like a huge wave.


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Post subject: Re: Today's picture from the Web!Posted: June 27th, 2011, 9:19 pm
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Yeah, I saw a video of a Russian one wallow about it pretty flat weather, hope they can find a hull which is good at breaking ice and weathering storms

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Post subject: Re: Today's picture from the Web!Posted: June 27th, 2011, 9:23 pm
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Yeah, I saw a video of a Russian one wallow about it pretty flat weather, hope they can find a hull which is good at breaking ice and weathering storms
Oh they weather the storm quite nicely, if not comfortably.

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