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1. Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 31-Jul-2023 14:51:41 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅
   > Imagine losing your rudder out at sea and sending out a distress call. And then the largest ocean-going wooden sailing ship in the world comes to your rescue. Or in the words of the sailors on the sailing boat: "This moment was very strange, and we wondered if we were dreaming. Where were we? What time period was it?"

   
   gotheborg.se/news/rescue-of-sa…

   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 31-Jul-2023 17:39:57 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     > I need everyone to know that the ship Götheborg, the world’s largest ocean-going wooden sailing ship, answered a distress call the other day.

     > Imagine waiting for the coast guard or whatever to show up and instead a replica of 18th century merchant ship pulls up and tows you to the coast.

   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 31-Jul-2023 17:39:57 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     The en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Cons… is the world's oldest ship still afloat. She's from 1797 and fought in the War of 1812. She was in the First Barbary War in the Mediterranean, so clearly an oceangoing ship in theory, but she was officially designated a museum ship in 1907 and hasn't left Massachusetts since.
   • Graydon (graydon@canada.masto.host)'s status on Monday, 31-Jul-2023 21:50:08 UTC Graydon

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     @clacke They did tow her out to sea in 1997 for her 200th anniversary and then sailed her back in. Whether that's technically ocean-going or not I imagine to be a matter of taste.

     I find it interesting that the Navy was plain mad for nigh a hundred years about being required to preserve Constitution, and then since the bicentennial in 1976 change occurred. Today the Navy thinks she's holy.

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