A Fresh-Water Paddle-Wheeled Naval Carrier. In RL. Involves Bush. Citelink

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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This jabbering Roundhead Madness is all true!
We built a paddle wheeled aircraft carrier, & then deployed it in Lake Michigan. In fact, we built two OG-be-dammed paddle-wheeled fresh-water aircraft carriers, & deployed them in Lake Michigan.

And George Bush was involved!
And he landed on it!
Several times!!
To help Win The War™!

Of course, it was built in World War 2.

And it was George Mark One.

And they were training ships.

But they were Paddle-Wheeled Fresh Water Aircraft Carriers.

And here are the links to prove it–

Why have we not heard of this before? :confused: :cool:

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Hey man, so long as they ain’t got Mel Gibson on board for a huge poker game with Jodie Foster and James Garner, I’m cool with it.

Tripler
Oh, and so long as they don’t make trireme-submarines, I’m cool with that too. . .

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nitpick: they were converted from existing paddlewheelers.

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I knew that you were referring to the Sable and the Wolverine without previewing or opening the thread. That must say something about me, but I’m not sure I want to know what.

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I stumbled on these about a week ago and was saddened to see niether one was saved to become a museum ship.

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Well, it says much the same thing about me. I’d first encountered a mention of them in the memoirs of R.ADM Daniel V. Gallery. Actually, looking at pics of the Wolverine, it’s surprising to me, just how normal it looks, really.

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…I wonder if the Bolivian Navy has heard of this… :smiley:

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Let’s have a paddle-wheeled naval carrier! With hookers! And poker! In fact, forget the carrier!

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Not quite trireme, but how’s about a triple hulled submarine?