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Re: Return of the Battleships?

It may seem funny, but below the waterline a battleship is extremely fragile.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdrISbwy_zI

(By the way, the fruity-voiced announcer gets the ship's name wrong: conventionally it is pronounced "Barram". As for "the first time...", a U-boat torpedoed and sank HMS "Royal Oak" in the opening days of WW2 - in Scapa Flow).

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